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R. Hawke, "Mr. , 1 8-23 . Fritz Redlich, in "New and Traditional Approaches to Economic History, " Journal of Economic History 25 ( 1 965 ) : 484-8 5, introduces to the controversy the work of FALLA CIES OF Q UESTION-FRA MING 19 thing from his work by arguing that counterfactuals can be used correctly "for the elucidation of relatively short-term changes, preferably in situa tions in which the political factor may be largely neglected. " Maybe he is thinking of something like the "human factor," in which case he would rule out any historical problem involving those irritating and unpredictable things called people.
You would at once have suspected some joke. The historian writes of the Norman conquest or the American war of independence as if what happened was in fact bound to happen, and as if it was his business simply to e xpl ai n what happened and w hy " ( ibid. ) . But this, unfortunately, is no t true, at least as far as the American Revolution is concerned. David Hawke writes, " Noth i ng intrigues colonial h istor i ans more than the question of wh y the American Revolution occurred. " ( The Colonial Experience [Indianapolis, 1 966], p.
2 1 ( 1 968 ) : 1 - 1 6 ; E . H. Hunt, "The New Economic History : Professor Fogel's Study of American Railroads," History 53 ( 1968 ) : 3- 1 8 ; G. R. Hawke, "Mr. , 1 8-23 . Fritz Redlich, in "New and Traditional Approaches to Economic History, " Journal of Economic History 25 ( 1 965 ) : 484-8 5, introduces to the controversy the work of FALLA CIES OF Q UESTION-FRA MING 19 thing from his work by arguing that counterfactuals can be used correctly "for the elucidation of relatively short-term changes, preferably in situa tions in which the political factor may be largely neglected.