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The Voices and Audiences of Social History Records

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Barbara A. Hanawalt
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We seem, as social science historians, to have become increasingly interested in the way that we present our evidence or tell our story or narrative. Donald McCloskey’s address last year cajoled us, or perhaps exhorted us, not to separate the scientific from the humanistic approach to writing history. As he pointed out, metaphor even creeps into economics, which is, by its earliest accounts, a dismal science. Metaphor influences the way one argues even with numbers (McCloskey 1990). I share his interest in rhetoric and add an interest in narrative.

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Research Article
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Social Science History , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , Summer 1991 , pp. 159 - 175
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1991 

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