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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.

DOI: 10.1057/9781137372406

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Introduction

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1-25

Intellectual historians and the content of the form

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26-51

Social history, cultural history, other histories

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52-85

Causes, events and evidence

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86-116

Time, narrative and causality

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117-148

Explanation and understanding

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149-179

Theories of action and the archaeology of knowledge

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180-216

Conclusion

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217-224