ABSTRACT
History is moved by emotion, no less than by ideology or economics. We are accustomed to thinking that social and cultural change occurs because of
the impact of ideas whose time has come: this is the humanist view of history. And we are familiar with the alternative theory, that the beliefs and actions of people are largely determined by their material conditions: this is Marxist historiography. We tend to be far less adept, however, at accounting for the role of emotional states in shaping historical phenomena.
