History and Revolutions History Essay
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As Herbert Gutman observes, historical understanding allows us to see historical phenomenon not simply as facts that occurred at some point in time, but as contingencies, dependent on the concurrent existence of numerous variables - inequality, societal structures, and people's sentiments, among others - that lead to a given event against the backdrop of political, social, and economic structures that change through time.