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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. Such neglect or
criticism of causality in history on a theoretical level contrasts
with persisting interest in causal analysis in sociology, political
science, international relations and economics; historians have
criticised these disciplines for searching in vain for quantitative
proofs, probabilities and covering laws. Hewitson demonstrates,
through a critical analysis of a series of overlapping linguistic,
cultural and post-colonial 'turns', the extent to which
intellectual, social, cultural and other historians have come to
renounce the very idea of causality. It uncovers the nexus between
the formulation of questions, selection of evidence, use of
comparison and counterfactuals, and the refinement of theories, all
of which are necessary for description and narrative.
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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