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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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Mayflower by Nathaniel PhilbrickA Voyage Long and Strange by Tony HorwitzJohn Adams by David McCulloughAlbion's Seed by David Hackett FischerThe Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
Colonial North America (nonfiction)
141 books — 51 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

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard BailynThe Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 by Gordon S. WoodThe Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. WoodAmerican Scripture by Pauline Maier1776 by David McCullough
Historiography of the American Revolution, 1607-1800 (nonfiction)
130 books — 64 voters
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

Ten Days that Shook the World by John ReedHistory of the Russian Revolution by Leon TrotskyA People's Tragedy by Orlando FigesWhat Is to Be Done? by Vladimir LeninRed Flag Unfurled by Ronald Grigor Suny
Russian Revolution Historiography
42 books — 7 voters
The French Revolution by Gary KatesPolitics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution by Lynn HuntWomen and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution by Olwen H. HuftonThe Family Romance of the French Revolution by Lynn HuntA Socialist History of the French Revolution by Jean Jaurès
French Revolution Historiography
36 books — 2 voters

Quotes Tagged “Historiography”

Herbert Butterfield
“ If history could be told in all its complexity and detail it would provide us with something as chaotic and baffling as life itself... ”
― Herbert Butterfield, The Whig Interpretation of History
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Steven Brust
“ The proof that these words marked the event… is the very fact that no other words have ever been recorded; and it is well known that ‘historians’ of the popular school dearly love to mark great events by the words which accompanied them. What reason would they have for ignoring words to mark the occasion except that these words fail, in their judgment, to convey the proper sense of the occasion? ”
― Steven Brust, The Lord of Castle Black
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Videos Tagged “Historiography”

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