The Cynical Historian | Overdetermination : Contingency in History @CynicalHistorian | Uploaded 3 months ago | Updated 1 hour ago
Overdetermination is when something in history is described in such a way as to forget contingency; systems over individuals. It is an easy concept to grasp, but with immense implications for how historians write history, proving yet another thing that requires subjectivity
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*Bibliography*
James M. Banner, _The Ever-Changing Past: Why All History Is Revisionist History_ (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2021), audiobook. amzn.to/3y0Y8er

Richard Cohen, _Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past_ (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2022), audible. amzn.to/3zrMOwk

Sarah C. Maza, _Thinking About History_ (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017). amzn.to/47kvkzE
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