The phrase "historical case study" is a correct and commonly used term in written English.
It refers to the analysis and examination of a particular event, phenomenon, or individual in history, using various methods and sources of research. Example: "The historian conducted a thorough historical case study of the Industrial Revolution, examining the economic, social, and political factors that contributed to its development."
Examples are legion, Germany between the great wars perhaps providing the most frightening historical case study.
An in-depth historical case study of a chemical company is confronted with systematic and economic research.
Also, we do not base our research on projections or scenarios, but we take a historical case study approach.
This procedure is illustrated through historical case study in which we study the semantic change of the concept "Sin" in the Corpus of Historical American English.
The transformation perspective is illustrated with a historical case study, the hygienic transition from cesspools to integrated sewer systems in The Netherlands.
Have students read a historical case study about a scientist (e.g., the American Museum of Natural History's online Darwin exhibit: http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/darwin/) and apply the checklist.
Colt mixes personal observations, science and historical case studies — the Jameses, the Booths and many others.
The course was centred around historical case studies and teaching it forced Kuhn to study old scientific texts in detail for the first time.
She avoids the kind of facile evidentiary cherry-picking that Christensen and too many business-school professors engage in when citing historical case studies.
Speaking to community and business figures here in Leeds over recent months, their research has encompassed a wide field of historical case studies – from the work of early Industrial Revolution industrialists such as John Marshall, through to the abiding charitable benefaction of the late Jimi Heselden.
I believe that historical case studies played a significant role in driving this tendency.
