Literally no historian who emphasizes the role of structures or social history believes individuals make no difference. I mean, historians *do* “underrate ~naive~ ‘great man’ [sic] explanations” for good reason. https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1033473441897373697 …
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The way I like to phrase it is: a lot of what it means to be a historian is to try and figure out what kinds of circumstances lead to individual decisions mattering in a disproportionate way. It's another way to think about what "power" means.
11:20 AM - 26 Aug 2018
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