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The Use and Abuse of History: Or How the Past Is Taught [a] (French: Comment on raconte l'histoire aux enfants) is a 1981 book by Marc Ferro about the interaction between politics and historiography. [1] [2] [3] It has been described as classic within two decades of its publication. [4]
What Is History? is a 1961 non-fiction book by historian E. H. Carr on historiography. It discusses history, facts, the bias of historians, science, morality, individuals and society, and moral judgements in history. The book originated in a series of lectures given by Carr in 1961 at the University of Cambridge.
Historical method is the collection of techniques and guidelines that historians use to research and write histories of the past. Secondary sources, primary sources and material evidence such as that derived from archaeology may all be drawn on, and the historian's skill lies in identifying these sources, evaluating their relative authority, and combining their testimony appropriately in order ...
"Historiography and Historiophoty" is the name of an essay by historian and literary critic Hayden White first published in 1988 in The American Historical Review. In the essay, White coins the term " historiophoty " to describe the "representation of history and our thought about it in visual images and filmic discourse". [ 1 ]
Frank Ankersmit has forcefully asserted the importance of Metahistory for the English speaking world. [5] In the view of Ankersmit and like-minded scholars, White's work has made obsolete the view of language as neutral medium in historiography and has provided a way to treat methodological issues at a level higher than elementary propositions and atomic facts.
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The Allegory On the Writing of History shows Truth (top) watching the historian write history, while advised by Wisdom.(Jacob de Wit,1754)Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension, the term historiography is any body of historical work on a particular subject.
He discussed the difference between history and memory, and the writing of history, the Middle Ages—vessels and vehicles of Jewish memory, the 1492 expulsion of Jews from Spain, and modern dilemmas related to Jewish historiography. The Postscript is a reflection on forgetting.