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Looking beyond the Tribe: Abandoning Paradigms to Write Social History in Yemen During World War I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Isa Blumi
Isa Blumi*
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New York University, Joint History and Middle Eastern Studies Program, New York City
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A common error in historico-political analysis consists in an inability to find the correct relation between what is organic and what is conjunctural. This leads to presenting causes as immediately operative which in fact only operate indirectly, or to asserting that the immediate causes are the only effective ones … In the first case there is an overestimation of mechanical causes, in the second an exaggeration of the voluntarist and individual element (Gramsci 1971, p. 178).

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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 22 , Spring 2000 , pp. 117 - 143
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