Historiography

This is the essential primer on the complexities of history writing, and writing history. "What is historiography?" asked the American historian Carl Becker in 1938 and professional historians continue to argue over the meaning of the term. This book challenges the view of historiography as an esoteric subject by presenting an accessible and concise overview of the history of historical writing from the Renaissance to the present, focusing primarily on the US and Europe. Historiography plays an integral role in aiding undergraduate students to better understand the nature and purpose of historical analysis more generally by examining the many conflicting ways that historians have defined and approached history. By demonstrating how these historians have differed in both their interpretations of specific historical events and their definitions of history itself, this book conveys to students the interpretive character of history as a discipline and the way that the historian's context and subjective perspective influence his or her understanding of the past.

ISBN 1441177671   Pages 200 ISBN13 9781441177674 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 340 Publisher Continuum Publishing Corporation   Published in New York Imprint Continuum Publishing Corporation   Height (mm) 216 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 138 Publication date 01 Mar 2012   Spine width (mm) 18 DEWEY 907.2   Academic level Undergraduate DEWEY edition DC23

1: Science and Religion in Renaissance and Early Modern Historical Writing; 2: Enlightenment and Philosophical History; 3: Romantic and Critical History; 4: From Scientific History to the New History; 5: Social History, Narrative, and the Problem of Objectivity; 6: History and Historiography in Global Perspective; Appendix: Major European and American Historians.

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Version	Price	Published	Edition
Hardback	£45.00	2012