Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each item: an Annales gain or an Annales cost?
Groups: Gain · Cost
- Contingency dismissed as noise beneath the structures
- Serial history: long runs of prices and populations
- It becomes hard to explain why anything ever changes
- Climate and disease admitted as historical actors
- Human agency shrinks until nobody can decide anything
- The history of mentalités: how ordinary people felt
Hints
- The programme gained subject matter but lost something else.
- A history of structures struggles to accommodate decisions.
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Gain: Climate and disease admitted as historical actors, The history of mentalités: how ordinary people felt, Serial history: long runs of prices and populations
Cost: Human agency shrinks until nobody can decide anything, It becomes hard to explain why anything ever changes, Contingency dismissed as noise beneath the structures
Why
A total history that could explain everything except decisions. Le Roy Ladurie named the extreme himself: "history without people".
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