Thanks to USIH blog editor L.D. Burnett for the chance to think in public about the work of J.G.A. Pocock. I want to suggest that Pocock, in some ways he probably didn’t intend, gives us some of the best tools we have to think politically about historiography, and historiographically about politics. I think it would be good for historians to do more of both of those things, or better yet, to think of these things as inseparable and an important part of what it means to be a historian. I should say at the outset that part of what I Read more