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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
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Women did not stand by and watch these changes occur. They participated, tangentially and head on, in debates about history writing that effected change.
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― British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820
― British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820
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Playing the role which has always fallen to the historian, the role of the traitor.
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― The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
― The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
