ABSTRACT
The level of analysis tightens or broadens depending upon whether the historian travels up or down temporal domains that consist of representative classes of dates characterized in hourly, daily, annual, secular, or millennial terms. Annualization is but an ordinal class of historical analysis as opposed to the cardinal class of, for example, third, fourth, or sixteenth century. The relationship between events and change has been discussed in a variety of humanities and social science disciplines, primarily in history, political science, and philosophy. Echoing Collingwood, he purports that a cause “is seen as a point of intervention,” which is “that factor in the situation which people can most easily control or manipulate.” Jameson’s recommendation of moving from one form of narrative to another may be closer to the synthesis within the Annales school than the latter would be willing to admit.
