The phrase "a historical process" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a series of events or developments that have occurred over time, shaping history or a particular context.
Example: "The rise and fall of empires is often viewed as a historical process that reflects the complexities of human civilization."
Alternatives: "an evolutionary process" or "a historical development".
It is futile, he said, to try to block a "historical process".
That is a conception of liberal internationalism as a historical process rather than as an ideal.
But as a historical process in which world communities, people living distances, were increasingly connected, that phenomenon is very old.
Supported by the vast majority of its people, a historical process of building the "great Latin American nation" is under way.
For Joschka Fischer, the German foreign minister, such European integration amounts to a "historical process" and, as such, is unstoppable -- even by America.
There is a two-way feedback mechanism that does not lead to a predetermined resting place, but keeps a historical process in motion.
This was a consequence of globalization, an historical process that reconfigured the boundaries between economy, society, and culture; and it was also a primary theme of post-modernist aesthetics, which celebrated playful borrowing of multiple and diverse historical references.
Hence, as Johnson points out, "in the story of professionalization as an historical process, state intervention is often viewed as a major impediment, explaining why certain occupations fail to attain the full flowering of professionalism" (1995, 11).
These rules accumulated through an historical process of rationalisation of popular wisdom, playing an important role in the regulation of social life and the settlement of conflicts.
And how much have they been caught up by an historical process that they had originally sworn to bring to a halt?
As David Savan puts it, "Peirce's intention was to identify the third type of interpretant as providing a norm or standard by which particular stages (Dynamical Interpretants) of an historical process may be judged".
