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Counterfactuals and revisionism in historical explanation
This article addresses the role of counterfactuals in historical and ethnohistorical explanation. Drawing primarily on examples from the Conquest of Mexico, it argues (1) for a useful role for counterfactual analysis, not in writing fiction, but in assessing pivotal causation and proofing causal arguments; (2) for a clearer understanding of causation in historical records, especially of ethnohistorical subjects; and (3) for a way in which this perspective can be employed to argue for solidly grounded revisionist interpretations of events.Yeshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guideline
Peter Mathias. The Transformation of England: Essays in the Economic and Social History of England in the Eighteenth Century. New York: Columbia University Press. 1980. Pp. 324. $18.50.
The Dynamics of change : the crisis of the 175os and english party systems/ Clark
xiii, 614 hal.; 23 cm
The Dynamics of change : the crisis of the 175os and english party systems/ Clark
xiii, 614 hal.; 23 cm