History and Causality [electronic resource] /
Hewitson, M.author.
This volume investigates the different attitudes of historians and other social scientists to questions of causality. It argues that historical theorists after the linguistic turn have paid surprisingly little attention to causes in spite of the centrality of causation in many contemporary works of history.
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Introduction: causality after the linguistic turn -- Intellectual historians and the content of the form -- Social history, cultural history, other histories -- Causes, events and evidence -- Time, narrative and causality -- Explanation and understanding -- Theories of action and the archaeology of knowledge.
This volume investigates the different attitudes of historians and other social scientists to questions of causality. It argues that historical theorists after the linguistic turn have paid surprisingly little attention to causes in spite of the centrality of causation in many contemporary works of history.
History, Modern.
Europe-History.
Historiography.
World history.
Modern History.
European History.
Historiography and Method.
World History, Global and Transnational History.