Theories of History

http://scottneigh.blogspot.ca/2006/07/theories-of-history.html
Date Written:  2006-07-29
Year Published:  2006
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX15428

Conventional history tends to make ordinary people invisible. The motive forces of history are treated as some combination of "great men" (very occasionally women, almost always hetero and white regardless of gender) and impersonal forces like "economics" (treated in ways that reify them and give them agency outside of the local, everyday human activities that actually produce them).

Subject Headings

• Canadian Studies
• Historians
• History