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Historiography

Historiography is the study of the methodology of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians have studied that topic using particular sources, techniques, and theoretical approaches

Historiography Books

What Is History?
The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.
The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past
In Defense of History
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
Historians' Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought
The Idea of History
History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession
Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern
Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe
On History
The Uses and Abuses of History
Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge
Telling the Truth About History
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What is Cultural History? by Peter BurkeWhat is the History of the Book? by James RavenWhat is the History of Emotions? by Barbara H. RosenweinWhat is Sexual History? by Jeffrey WeeksWhat is the History of Knowledge? by Peter Burke
Polity's What is History? series
17 books — 1 voter
Escape to the Maroons by Mike WeedallAnti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard HofstadterThe Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard BailynThe Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 by Gordon S. WoodThe Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand
US Intellectual History
256 books — 121 voters

It's No Wonder by Margena A. ChristianSyrian Conflict in the News, The by Gabriel HulandThe War That Made the Middle East by Mustafa AksakalThe Game Changer by Jon RalstonExit Stalin by Mark B. Smith
Foundations of History: Essential Scholarly Works
91 books — 3 voters
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? by Linda NochlinThe Lives of the Artists by Giorgio VasariIntroductory Lectures on Aesthetics by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelReflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and S... by Johann Joachim WinckelmannThe Politics of Vision by Linda Nochlin
Foundations of Art History
38 books — 6 voters

Atlantic American Societies by Alan L. KarrasThe Industrial Revolution and Work in Nineteenth Century Europe by Lenard R. BerlansteinSociety and Culture in the Slave South by William J. HarrisGender and American History Since 1890 (Rewriting Histories) by Barbara MeloshDiversity and Unity in Early North America by Phillip Morgan
Routledge's Rewriting Histories series
32 books — 1 voter
When Mayor Doug Wilder Ruled Richmond by Linwood NormanThe Historian's Craft by Marc BlochPracticing History by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Histories by HerodotusLies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
Best Books on Historical Theory
66 books — 32 voters

Quotes Tagged “Historiography”

“ Playing the role which has always fallen to the historian, the role of the traitor. ”
― Stefanos Geroulanos, The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
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“ Думите за равенство всякога подкупват многолюдието. ”
― Симеон Радев, Строителите на съвременна България, том 1: Царуването на Кн. Александра 1879-1886.
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Videos Tagged “Historiography”

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