E.P. Thompson and the discipline of historical context.
From: Social Research
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Date: 6/22/1994
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Author: Calhoun, Craig
E.P. Thompson's most important contribution to the social sciences may have been his approach to historical context. Thompson's notion of historical context sought to be as holistic as possible and used an anthropological approach to the past. No action, in Thompson's mind, could be fully understood as an independent occurrence, but was intwined in the culture and specific situation in which it occurred. By studying humans in their context Thompson was able to enrich the past and the role of ...
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