Historical thinking: causation

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Historians are concerned with the problem of causation, that is, why a particular event or series of events happened. In order to explain the past, the historian attempts to make the past ordered and logical. S/he may try to establish some hierarchy of causes; perhaps to decide which cause or category of causes should be regarded as the "cause of all causes".
- Carr, E.H. What is History?