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Appears to be a summarisation of its content without critique. Funnily that's what I found with Braudel himself: describing what happened not why. Regardless,

• throwawaybbb 7y ago
  To quote Feynman: explaining how something happens makes the why irrelevant.
  • Merrill 7y ago
    The how can often be determined. The why is often conjecture after the fact. History is written by the victors.
  • monadic2 7y ago
    Feynman did not deal with humans. Knowing that Lincoln was killed with a bullet does not lessen the value of why he was killed.
• Ericson2314 7y ago
  Well, we had years of more claims than evidence. Somebody had to do the hard labor for sake of future historians. I hope someday democracy has recovered to the point where we can centrally plan, and then we can experimentally historical theorys.
• woodandsteel 7y ago
  You can't explain why until you have a really good description of the what.