Power users and mods just keep repeating: “History is not a science because culture (i.e., god) is all-powerful. We might use evidence but we distrust grand theories.”
Power users and mods just keep repeating: “History is not a science because culture (i.e., god) is all-powerful. We might use evidence but we distrust grand theories.”
interpreting history from a materialist lens makes you ‘biased’ or ‘ideological’, which is bad. historians are supposed to be like a machine, take input in and produce a compiled output of all the facts.
source: my favorite unbiased historian, renowned for writing a biography of Churchill where he said he did nothing wrong