The Importance of Narrative History

I would add an intellectual reason for preferring narrative history beyond just the pleasure and enjoyment of reading the prose. It seems to me that narrative history is best placed to capture the nonlinearities and path dependency of history as it happened in the real world. And contrast that with focusing on characters and relationships which I think you're more attracted to. There's just an example from your book I'd like to raise. And that is the founding of Madras and Francis Day, which was done so he could be closer to a woman. In land. You know, it, Madras wasn't founded for some grand narrative. It was just a guy who wanted to have more sex, which probably explains