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  2. Category:Theories of history - Wikipedia

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    Theories of history are theories for why things happened the way they did (and possibly what that means for the future). Subcategories. This category has the ...

  3. Cliodynamics - Wikipedia

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    Cliodynamics treats history as science. Its practitioners develop theories that explain such dynamical processes as the rise and fall of empires, population booms and busts, and the spread and disappearance of religions. [2] [3] These theories are translated into mathematical models. Finally, model predictions are tested against data.

  4. Historical method - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Historicism - Wikipedia

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    In this opinion, grand theories are unprovable, and instead intensive field work would determine the most likely explanation and history of a culture, and hence it is named "historicism". This opinion would produce a wide range of definition of what, exactly, constituted culture and history, but in each case the only means of explaining it was ...

  6. Comparative historical research - Wikipedia

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    2. comparative history as parallel demonstration of theory – the emphasis is on identifying similarities across relevant cases; 3. comparative history as contrast of contexts – the emphasis is on the differences between cases and the uniqueness of each case. Scholars that use this approach tends to be wary of drawing broad generalizations.

  7. Cultural memory - Wikipedia

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    The theory posits that memory is not just an individual, private experience but also part of the collective domain, which both shapes the future and our understanding of the past. It has become a topic in both historiography , which emphasizes the process of forming cultural memory, and cultural studies , which emphasizes the implications and ...

  8. How square dancing became a weapon of white supremacy ... - AOL

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    In doing so, Ford rewrote the cultural history of the dance form and set the stage for a pantheon of racist ideas that still animate modern white supremacist movements. Most Americans rightly ...

  9. Historical particularism - Wikipedia

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    Historical particularism (coined by Marvin Harris in 1968) [1] is widely considered the first American anthropological school of thought.. Closely associated with Franz Boas and the Boasian approach to anthropology, historical particularism rejected the cultural evolutionary model that had dominated anthropology until Boas.