Practice question · Select all that apply
What does widening the frame to environmental and deep time actually buy a historian?
Hints
- The gains are tractability, new causes and precision about scale.
- Relieving anyone of responsibility is the failure mode, not a benefit.
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- A. Questions unanswerable at conventional scale become tractable
- B. Climate, disease, and animals can be treated as causes rather than scenery
- D. It shows at which speed a given cause operates, locating agency precisely
Why
Tractability, new causes, and precision about scale, this is Braudel’s question in different clothes. the third option is the failure mode, not the payoff.
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