No, just saying that, as you say, metonymic historiography, should not be treated or accepted as a reality rather than for the generalizing, conversationally convenient, rhetorical, figure of speech it is. As the great pioneering 19th century historian, Jacob Burckehardt, warned on more than one occasion, "Beware the simplifiers."
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