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Historiographic Reasoning (Elements in Historical Theory and Practice)
by Aviezer TuckerHistoriographic reasoning from evidentiary inputs is sui generis. Historiography is neither empirical, nor self-knowledge, nor a genre of fiction or ideology. Historiographic reasoning is irreducible to general scientific or social science reasoning. The book applies Bayesian insights to explicate historiographic reasoning as probable. It distinguishes epistemic transmission of knowledge from evidence from the generation of detailed historiographic knowledge from multiple coherent and independent evidentiary inputs in three modular stages. A history of historiographic reasoning since the late 18th century demonstrates that there was a historiographic scientific revolution across the historical sciences in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The underdetermination of historiography by the evidence, counterfactual historiographic reasoning, and false reasoning and other fallacies are further explained and discussed in terms of the probabilistic relations between the evidence and historiography.
Historiographical Investigations in International Relations (The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought)
by Nicolas Guilhot Brian C. SchmidtThis book critically investigates the historiography of International Relations. For the past fifteen years, the field has witnessed the development of a strong interest in the history of the discipline. The chapters in this edited volume, written by some of the field’s preeminent disciplinary historians, all manifest the best of an innovative and exciting generation of scholarship on the history of the discipline of International Relations. One of the objectives of this volume is to take stock of the historical turn. Yet this volume is not simply a stock-taking exercise, as it also intends to identify the limitations and blind spots of the recent historiographical literature. The chapters consider a range of diverse thinkers and examine their impact on understanding various dimensions of the field’s history.
Historiography And Historical Method
by Directorate of Distance Education - Madurai Kamaraj UniversityThe textbook Historiography and Historical Method, part of the M.A. History First Year program at Madurai Kamaraj University, offers a comprehensive exploration into the philosophy, development, and methodology of history. It begins by probing the fundamental question, “What is history?”, and introduces learners to a wide range of historiographical traditions—from ancient Greek and Roman writings to Eastern, Arab, and Indian contributions. The text delves into key theoretical approaches such as Idealism, Historicism, Relativism, and Marx’s Dialectical Materialism. It emphasizes the historian’s role in interpretation and objectivity, and presents a rigorous framework for historical research, including heuristics, criticism, synthesis, and documentation. Additionally, it discusses whether history should be seen as an art or a science, analyzes various types of history (political, economic, social, diplomatic), and explores its integration with allied subjects like geography and political science. The book equips students not only to understand past events, but to critically analyze how history is written and used in society.
Historiography and Causation in Psychoanalysis
by Edwin R. Wallace, IVWhat do the psychoanalyst and the historian have in common? This important question has stimulated a lively debate within the psychoanalytic profession in recent years, bearing as it does on the very nature of the psychoanalytic enterprise. Edwin Wallace, a clinician with training in the history and philosophy of science, brings a ranging scholarly perspective to the debate, mediating between rival perspectives and clarifying the issues at stake in the process of offering his own thoughtful conception of the historical nature of psychoanalysis. For Wallace, the procedures, problems, and interpretive possibilities of psychoanalysis and history are strikingly constant and mutually illuminating. He insists, further, that the fundamentally historical nature of psychoanalysis poses no threat to its scientific dignity. In arriving at this verdict, Wallace pushes beyond his expansive treatment of the many parallels between history and psychoanalysis to a systematic consideration of the problem of causation in both disciplines. Tracing the historical background of causation in science, philosophy, history, and analysis, he offers a logical analysis of determinism and a critique of causal language in psychoanalysis while adumbrating the historical character of psychoanalytic explanation. Historiography and Causation in Psychoanalysis is a thought-provoking work that cuts across disciplinary boundaries. It will cultivate the historical sensibilities of all its clinical readers, broadening and deepening the intellectual perspective they bring to the dialogue about the nature of psychoanalytic work. Timely and rewarding reading for analysts, psychiatrists, and clinical psychologists, it will be welcomed by historians and philosophers as well.
Historiography and Mythography in the Aristotelian Mirabilia (Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities)
by Robert Mayhew Stefan SchornThis is the first full-length volume in English that focuses on the historiographical section of the Mirabilia or De mirabilibus auscultationibus (On Marvelous Things Heard), attributed to Aristotle but not in fact by him. The central section of the Mirabilia, namely §§ 78–151, for the most part deals with historiographical material, with many of its entries having some relationship to ancient Greek historians of the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. The chapters in this volume discuss various aspects of this portion of the text, including textual issues involving toponyms; possible structural principles behind the organization of this section; the passages on Theopompus and Timaeus; mythography; the philosopher Heracleides of Pontos; Homeric exegesis; and the interrelationship between pseudo-Plutarch’s On Rivers, a section of the historian Stobaeus’ Geography, and the Mirabilia. Historiography and Mythography in the Aristotelian Mirabilia is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of this text, and of Greek philosophy, historiography, and literature more broadly.
Historiography and Space in Late Antiquity
by Peter Van NuffelenThe Roman Empire traditionally presented itself as the centre of the world, a view sustained by ancient education and conveyed in imperial literature. Historiography in particular tended to be written from an empire-centred perspective. In Late Antiquity, however, that attitude was challenged by the fragmentation of the empire. This book explores how a post-imperial representation of space emerges in the historiography of that period. Minds adapted slowly, long ignoring Constantinople as the new capital and still finding counter-worlds at the edges of the world. Even in Christian literature, often thought of as introducing a new conception of space, the empire continued to influence geographies. Political changes and theological ideas, however, helped to imagine a transferral of empire away from Rome and to substitute ecclesiastical for imperial space. By the end of Late Antiquity, Rome was just one of many centres of the world.
Historiography and the Formation of Philosophical Canons
by Sandra Lapointe Erich H. ReckThis book presents a series of case studies and reflections on the historiographical assumptions, methods and approaches that shape the way in which philosophers construct their own past. The chapters in the volume advance discussion of the methods of historians of philosophy, while at the same time illustrating the various ways in which philosophical canons come into existence, debunking the myth of analytical philosophy’s ahistoricism and providing a deeper understanding of the roles historiographical devices play in philosophical thought. More importantly, the contributors attempt to understand history of philosophy in connection with other historical and historiographical approaches: contributors engage classical history of science, sociology of knowledge, history of psychology and historiography, in dialogue with historiographical practices in philosophy more narrowly construed. Additionally, select chapters adopt a more diverse perspective, by making place for non-Western approaches and for efforts to construe new philosophical narratives that do justice to the voice of women across the centuries. Historiography and the Formation of Philosophical Canons will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in history of philosophy, meta-philosophy, philosophy of history, historiography, intellectual history and sociology of knowledge.
Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge
by Georg G. Iggers&“No one looking for a well-informed introduction to . . the key views of history adopted by professional historians . . could find a better one than this.&” ―Richard J. Evans, author of In Defence of History A broad perspective on historical thought and writing, with a new epilogue. In this book, now published in ten languages, a preeminent intellectual historian examines the profound changes in ideas about the nature of history and historiography. Georg G. Iggers traces the basic assumptions upon which historical research and writing have been based, and describes how the newly emerging social sciences transformed historiography following World War II. The discipline&’s greatest challenge may have come in the last two decades, when postmodern ideas forced a reevaluation of the relationship of historians to their subject and questioned the very possibility of objective history. Iggers sees the contemporary discipline as a hybrid, moving away from a classical, macrohistorical approach toward microhistory, cultural history, and the history of everyday life. The new epilogue, by the author, examines the movement away from postmodernism towards new social science approaches that give greater attention to cultural factors and to the problems of globalization. &“The book has all the virtues one associates with Georg Iggers—lucidity, detachment, balance, and the ability to reveal the relation between trends in historical writing and their political and cultural contexts.&” —Peter Burke, Cambridge University
Historiography of Europeans in Africa and Asia, 1450–1800 (An Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450 to 1800 #4)
by Anthony DisneyThe first part of this volume deals with the changes and continuities in historical approaches over the last fifty years, with three further sections focusing on initial contacts, formal presences, and informal presences. Emphasis has been placed on the major European players in Asia and Africa before 1800 - the Portuguese, Dutch and English, without neglecting the role played by the French, Spanish, Scandinavians and others.
Historiography of Imperial Russia: The Profession and Writing of History in a Multinational State
by Thomas SandersThis collection of the best new and recent work on historical consciousness and practice in late Imperial Russia assembles the building blocks for a fundamental reconceptualization of Russian history and history writing.
Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries
by Volker R. Remmert Martina R. Schneider Henrik Kragh SørensenThis book addresses the historiography of mathematics as it was practiced during the 19th and 20th centuries by paying special attention to the cultural contexts in which the history of mathematics was written. In the 19th century, the history of mathematics was recorded by a diverse range of people trained in various fields and driven by different motivations and aims. These backgrounds often shaped not only their writing on the history of mathematics, but, in some instances, were also influential in their subsequent reception. During the period from roughly 1880-1940, mathematics modernized in important ways, with regard to its content, its conditions for cultivation, and its identity; and the writing of the history of mathematics played into the last part in particular. Parallel to the modernization of mathematics, the history of mathematics gradually evolved into a field of research with its own journals, societies and academic positions. Reflecting both a new professional identity and changes in its primary audience, various shifts of perspective in the way the history of mathematics was and is written can still be observed to this day. Initially concentrating on major internal, universal developments in certain sub-disciplines of mathematics, the field gradually gravitated towards a focus on contexts of knowledge production involving individuals, local practices, problems, communities, and networks. The goal of this book is to link these disciplinary and methodological changes in the history of mathematics to the broader cultural contexts of its practitioners, namely the historians of mathematics during the period in question.
Historiography of the History of Science in Islamicate Societies: Practices, Concepts, Questions (Variorum Collected Studies)
by Sonja BrentjesThis book presents eight papers about important historiographical issues as debated in the history of science in Islamicate societies, the history of science and philosophy of medieval Latin Europe and the history of mathematics as an academic discipline. Six papers deal with themes about the sciences in Islamicate societies from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries, among them novelty, context and decline. Two other papers discuss the historiographical practices of historians of mathematics and other disciplines in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The central argument of the collected papers is that in addition and beyond the study of scientific texts and instruments historians of science in Islamicate societies need to pay attention to cultural, material and social aspects that shaped the scientific activities of the authors and makers of such texts and instruments. It is pointed out that the diachronic, de-contextualized comparison between methods and results of scholars from different centuries, regions and cultures often leads to serious distortions of the historical record and is responsible for the long-term neglect of scholarly activities after the so-called "Golden Age". The book will appeal in particular to teachers of history of science in Islamicate societies, to graduate students interested in issues of methodology and to historians of science grappling with the unresolved problems of how think and write about the sciences in concrete societies of the past instead of subsuming all extant texts, instruments, maps and other objects related to the sciences under macro-level concepts like Islam or Latin Europe. (CS 1114).
Historiography | Cosmography: A Monograph in Honour of Professor Harjeet Singh Gill
by Ishwar Dayal GaurThis book attempts to study Panjab historiography from the viewpoint of cosmography, the concept derived from the cosmological paradigm which Professor Harjeet Singh Gill, an eminent semiotician, developed in his oeuvre. Since its introduction in the colonial Panjab, the discipline of historiography subdued the indigenous craft of history writing such as katha, qissa, janamsakhi, and jangnama wherein what Professor Gill has conceptualized as “the dialectic of representation and transcendence” remained ever active. This title has been co-published with Aakar Books. Print editions not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)
Historiography, Empire and the Rule of Law: Imagined Constitutions, Remembered Legalities
by Ian DuncansonHistoriography, Empire and the Rule of Law considers the intersection of these terms in the historical development of what has come to be known as the ‘rule of law’. The separation of governmental powers, checks and balances, and judicial independence signified something entirely new in the way in which politics was imagined and practiced. This ‘rule of law’ cannot, as it often is, be traced to the justification and practice of government as originating in a social contract among the governed; but rather, by analogy with a popular conveyancing innovation of the era, to the trust – a device by which the power of ownership of land could be restrained. But how could the restraint of power remain consistent with the avoidance of anarchic disagreement among those granted the task of supervision and restraint? In response, it is argued here, the central legal and political task became one of managing disagreement and change peacefully and constructively – by drawing on a colonial tradition that emphasised civility, negotiation and compromise. And the study of all of these qualities as they evolved, Ian Duncanson contends, is vital to understanding the emergence of the ‘rule of law’. Historiography, Empire and the Rule of Law will be invaluable for all those engaged in research and the postgraduate study of socio-legal and constitutional studies, and early modern and modern history.
Historiography, Ideology and Politics in the Ancient Near East and Israel: Changing Perspectives 5
by Mario LiveraniIn this volume, Niels Peter Lemche and Emanuel Pfoh present an anthology of seminal studies by Mario Liverani, a foremost scholar of the Ancient Near East. This collection contains 18 essays, 11 of which have originally been published in Italian and are now published in English for the first time. It represents an important contribution to Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Studies, exposing the innovative interpretations of Liverani on many historical and ideological aspects of ancient society. Topics range from the Amarna letters and the Ugaritic epic, to the ‘origins’ of Israel. Historiography, Ideology and Politics in the Ancient Near East and Israel will be an invaluable resource for Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical scholars, as well as graduate and post-graduate students.
Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern
by Ernst BreisachIn this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this up-to-date third edition narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with compelling sections on postmodernism, deconstructionism, African-American history, women's history, microhistory, the Historikerstreit, cultural history, and more. The definitive look at the writing of history by a historian, Historiography provides key insights into some of the most important issues, debates and innovations in modern historiography.
Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern
by Ernst BreisachIn this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this up-to-date third edition narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with compelling sections on postmodernism, deconstructionism, African-American history, women’s history, microhistory, the Historikerstreit, cultural history, and more. The definitive look at the writing of history by a historian, Historiography provides key insights into some of the most important issues, debates and innovations in modern historiography. Praise for the first edition: “Breisach’s comprehensive coverage of the subject and his clear presentation of the issues and the complexity of an evolving discipline easily make his work the best of its kind.”—Lester D. Stephens, American Historical Review
Historische Fälle aus der Medizin: Erstbeschreibungen von der Ahornsiruperkrankung bis zum Pfeifferschen Drüsenfieber
by Hansjosef BöhlesEin Fallbuch für alle, die sich für den Ursprung von Erkrankungen aus der Kinderheilkunde und der Inneren Medizin interessieren. Wollten Sie immer schon mal wissen, wie Emil Pfeiffer das Drüsenfieber beobachtete und beschrieb? Wer war dieser Arzt und wie ging es nach der Publikation weiter? In welchem kulturellen Umfeld entstand seine Erstbeschreibung und was wissen wir heute über das Krankheitsbild? 35 kommentierte historische Kasuistiken klassischer und seltener Erkrankungen in deutscher und teilweise englischer oder französischer Sprache, aus denen wir heute noch lernen können.
Historische Krankheiten aus einer modernen Perspektive: Die amerikanische Erfahrung
by James A. Shaw„Historische Krankheiten aus einer modernen Perspektive - Die amerikanische Erfahrung“ ist ein Muss für Geschichtsstudenten und Fans historischer Romane. Jeder Abschnitt enthält faszinierende Einblicke in die Erfahrungen Amerikas, wie zum Beispiel die Eindämmung des Pestausbruchs im Jahr 1900 in San Francisco, warum die Fließrichtung des Chicago Rivers geändert wurde, warum früher „Windpocken-Partys“ gefeiert wurden und wie Gelbfieber gelindert wurde. Leser mit Interesse an Militärgeschichte erfahren, wie die Truppenstärke beeinflusst wurde durch die Pocken im Unabhängigkeitskrieg, Durchfall im Bürgerkrieg, Grippe im Ersten Weltkrieg und Malaria im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Die Sozialgeschichte des Alkohol- und Opioid Konsums sowie die vor-antibiotische Behandlung von Syphilis und Gonorrhö werden ebenfalls behandelt. Der Einsatz von Anthrax als Werkzeug des Bioterrorismus, die Auswirkungen von Skorbut und der Schrecken der Lepra werden diskutiert. Der Text beginnt mit der Darstellung historischer Theorien zu Krankheitsursachen, Prävention und Heilung für ein besseres Verständnis. Die folgenden Kapitel beschreiben, wie Krankheiten ihre Namen erhielten (Spanische Grippe, Fleckfieber oder Schiffsfieber, Ague oder Schüttelfrost, blauer Tod, Scharlach usw.) und wie sie vor der modernen Medizin behandelt wurden. Der Fokus liegt auf den Auswirkungen von Krankheitsausbrüchen auf die Gesellschaft und der Entwicklung des Verständnisses, der Behandlung und der Prävention. Die Bedrohung durch das Wiederauftreten historischer Krankheiten aufgrund nachlassender Impfimmunitäten, Impfskepsis, Antibiotikaresistenz und Klimawandel wird als Subtext hervorgehoben. Das Buch behandelt eine Vielzahl historischer Krankheiten, gruppiert in ansteckende Krankheiten, durch Vektoren übertragene/zoonotische Krankheiten, fäkal-orale Krankheiten, sexuell übertragbare Krankheiten, Substanzgebrauchsstörungen, parasitäre Krankheiten, Ernährungskrankheiten, Pilzkrankheiten und durch den Boden übertragene bakterielle Krankheiten.
Historische, logische und individuelle Genese der Trigonometrie aus didaktischer Sicht (Bielefelder Schriften zur Didaktik der Mathematik #10)
by Valentin KatterIn diesem Open-Access-Buch führt Valentin Katter eine umfassende didaktisch orientierte Sachanalyse unter historisch-, logisch-, und individualgenetischen Gesichtspunkten durch, mit der es ihm möglich ist, systematisch sechs Grundvorstellungen zum Sinusbegriff zu identifizieren. Anhand detaillierter Videoanalysen zeigt der Autor anschließend, wie diese Grundvorstellungen genutzt werden können, um Denkprozesse von Lehramtsstudierenden in kooperativen Problemlösesituationen zu rekonstruieren. Diese Rekonstruktionen gewähren einen Einblick in das komplexe individuelle Netz von Vorstellungen und ermöglichen es, das Potential und mögliche Hindernisse, die in ihm stecken, auszuloten.
History (Past and Tradition) Atita o Aitihya class 7 - West Bengal Board: অতীত ও ঐতিহ্য সপ্তম শ্রেণি
by West Bengal Board of Secondary Educationসপ্তম শ্রেণির জন্য প্রস্তুত করা পাঠ্যপুস্তক অতীত ও ঐতিহ্য, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ মধ্যশিক্ষা পর্ষদ কর্তৃক প্রকাশিত, ইতিহাস বিষয়ক একটি আকর্ষণীয় ও সহজবোধ্য গ্রন্থ। এটি জাতীয় পাঠক্রম রূপরেখা ২০০৫ এবং শিক্ষার অধিকার আইন ২০০৯ অনুসারে নির্মিত। বইটি খ্রিস্টীয় সপ্তম থেকে অষ্টাদশ শতাব্দী পর্যন্ত ভারতের ইতিহাস ও সংস্কৃতির বিবর্তন তুলে ধরে। এর মধ্যে রাজনৈতিক ইতিহাস, সমাজ ও অর্থনীতির প্রবণতা এবং সাংস্কৃতিক উন্নয়নের বিষয়গুলি অন্তর্ভুক্ত করা হয়েছে। সহজ ভাষায় লেখা এই বইতে মানচিত্র ও চিত্রের ব্যবহার, পাশাপাশি ‘ভেবে দেখো খুঁজে দেখো’-এর মতো অনুশীলনমূলক অংশ সংযোজন করে শিক্ষার্থীদের জন্য ইতিহাসকে আরও আকর্ষণীয় ও প্রাণবন্ত করে তোলা হয়েছে। বইটিতে রাষ্ট্রবিজ্ঞানের প্রাথমিক ধারণাগুলিও অন্তর্ভুক্ত করা হয়েছে। শিক্ষার্থীদের কাছে ইতিহাসকে জীবন্ত ও অর্থবহ করার উদ্দেশ্যে এটি একটি চমৎকার উদ্যোগ।
History 11th Standard - Tamilnadu Board
by Training State Council of Educational ResearchHistory Textbook for the 11th Standard Students, preparing for Tamil Nadu State Board Exam.
History 12th Standard - Tamilnadu Board
by Training State Council of Educational ResearchHistory Textbook for the 12th Standard Students, preparing for Tamil Nadu State Board Exam.
History 3 Student Guide Part 1
by K12 Inc.This 3rd Grade History course traverses history from the Stone Age to the Space Age. Throughout this course, third grade students will explore the Renaissance, journey through the Age of Exploration, get to know the Maya, Aztecs, and Incas, visit civilizations in India, Africa, China, and Japan, and learn about the American Revolution and Colonial America.
History 3 Student Guide Part 2
by K12 StaffThe unit titles are: Looking East: Ottomans and Mughals; Africa, China, and Japan; England's Golden Age and Beyond; The America They Found and Founded; Graphs, Timelines, and Geography Review; The American Revolution