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D. The Approach of Historians to the Issue of Causation
You will now learn a bit more about how historians have approached the thorny issue of causation.
Read through this table as a class and tackle the Discussion Points as you go along:
Key Factor |
Timescale |
Big Question |
Concept of Progress |
Details |
|
Whig Historians |
Great Men |
Short Term Factors |
Where have we come from? |
Peaceful, evolutionary progress |
▪ Macauley had two key ideas: |
Marxist Historians |
Economics |
Mid-Term |
Where are we going? |
Violent, revolutionary progress |
▪ Karl Marx said that economic forces dictated the overall strategy of history; individuals just provided the tactics [more] |
Annales Historians |
Geography |
Long-Term |
Are we going anywhere? |
Question whole notion of progress |
▪ Fernand Braudel argues that individuals and even societies are merely short-term ripples on mid-term waves subject to long-term tides [more] |
Questions
1. Try to summarise the essential differences between the three main historiographical schools listed here in no more than 100 words.
2. How would MacAuley, Marx and Braudel each have explained the death of Billy Elliot described earlier?
3. Which of these historiographical schools do you belong most clearly to?
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