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Historiography is the study of the methods 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. Scholars discuss historiography by topic—such as the historiography of the United Kingdom, that of WWII, the British Empire, early Islam, and
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—and different approaches and genres, such as political history and
social history Social history, often called the new social history, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. In its "golden age" it was a major growth field in the 1960s and 1970s among scholars, and still is well represented in his ...
. Beginning in the nineteenth century, with the development of academic history, there developed a body of historiographic literature. The extent to which historians are influenced by their own groups and loyalties—such as to their nation state—remains a debated question. In the ancient world, chronological annals were produced in civilizations such as ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. However, the discipline of historiography was first established in the 5th century BC with the ''
Histories Histories or, in Latin, Historiae may refer to: * the plural of history * ''Histories'' (Herodotus), by Herodotus * ''The Histories'', by Timaeus * ''The Histories'' (Polybius), by Polybius * ''Histories'' by Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust), ...
'' of Herodotus, the founder of historiography. The Roman statesman Cato the Elder produced the first history in Latin, the '' Origines'', in the 2nd century BC. His near contemporaries Sima Tan and
Sima Qian Sima Qian (; ; ) was a Chinese historian of the early Han dynasty (206AD220). He is considered the father of Chinese historiography for his ''Records of the Grand Historian'', a general history of China covering more than two thousand years b ...
in the Han Empire of
China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
established
Chinese historiography Chinese historiography is the study of the techniques and sources used by historians to develop the recorded history of China. Overview of Chinese history The recording of events in Chinese history dates back to the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 ...
with the compiling of the '' Shiji'' (''Records of the Grand Historian''). During the Middle Ages, medieval historiography included the works of
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s in medieval Europe, Islamic histories by Muslim historians, and the Korean and Japanese historical writings based on the existing Chinese model. During the 18th-century Age of Enlightenment, historiography in the Western world was shaped and developed by figures such as Voltaire, David Hume, and Edward Gibbon, who among others set the foundations for the modern discipline. The research interests of historians change over time, and there has been a shift away from traditional diplomatic, economic, and political history toward newer approaches, especially social and
cultural studies Cultural studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the political dynamics of contemporary culture (including popular culture) and its historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers generally investigate how cultural practices re ...
. From 1975 to 1995 the proportion of professors of history in American universities identifying with social history increased from 31 to 41 percent, while the proportion of political historians decreased from 40 to 30 percent.Diplomatic dropped from 5 to 3 percent, economic history dropped from 7 to 5 percent, and cultural history grew from 14 to 16 percent. Based on the number of full-time professors in U.S. history departments.
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, David M. Kennedy, and Stephen D. Krasner, "Brothers under the Skin: Diplomatic History and International Relations", ''International Security'', Vol. 22, No. 1 (Summer, 1997), pp. 34–43 at p. 4
online at JSTOR
In 2007, of 5,723 faculty in the departments of history at British universities, 1,644 (29 percent) identified themselves with social history and 1,425 (25 percent) identified themselves with political history. Since the 1980s there has been a special interest in the memories and commemoration of past events—the histories as remembered and presented for popular celebration.


Terminology

In the early modern period, the term ''historiography'' meant "the writing of history", and ''historiographer'' meant " historian". In that sense certain official historians were given the title " Historiographer Royal" in
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(from 1618), England (from 1660), and Scotland (from 1681). The
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post is still in existence. Historiography was more recently defined as "the study of the way history has been and is written – the history of historical writing", which means that, "When you study 'historiography' you do not study the events of the past directly, but the changing interpretations of those events in the works of individual historians."


Antiquity

Understanding the past appears to be a universal human need, and the "telling of history" has emerged independently in civilizations around the world. What constitutes history is a philosophical question (see
philosophy of history Philosophy of history is the philosophical study of history and its discipline. The term was coined by French philosopher Voltaire. In contemporary philosophy a distinction has developed between ''speculative'' philosophy of history and ''crit ...
). The earliest
chronologies Chronology (from Latin ''chronologia'', from Ancient Greek , ''chrónos'', "time"; and , ''-logia'') is the science of arranging events in their order of occurrence in time. Consider, for example, the use of a timeline or sequence of events. It ...
date back to Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt, in the form of
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s and annals. However, no historical writers in these early civilizations were known by name. By contrast, the term "historiography" is taken to refer to written history recorded in a narrative format for the purpose of informing future generations about events. In this limited sense, "ancient history" begins with the early historiography of Classical Antiquity, in about the 5th century BC.


Europe


Greece

The earliest known systematic historical thought emerged in ancient Greece, a development which would be an important influence on the writing of history elsewhere around
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region. Greek historians greatly contributed to the development of historical methodology. The earliest known critical historical works were '' The Histories'', composed by Herodotus of Halicarnassus (484–425 BC) who became known as the "father of history". Herodotus attempted to distinguish between more and less reliable accounts, and personally conducted research by travelling extensively, giving written accounts of various Mediterranean cultures. Although Herodotus' overall emphasis lay on the actions and characters of men, he also attributed an important role to divinity in the determination of historical events. The generation following Herodotus witnessed a spate of local histories of the individual city-states ('' poleis''), written by the first of the
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who employed the written archives of city and sanctuary.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( grc, Διονύσιος Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἁλικαρνασσεύς, ; – after 7 BC) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Emperor Augustus. His literary sty ...
characterized these historians as the forerunners of Thucydides, and these local histories continued to be written into Late Antiquity, as long as the city-states survived. Two early figures stand out:
Hippias of Elis Hippias of Elis (; el, Ἱππίας ὁ Ἠλεῖος; late 5th century BC) was a Greek sophist, and a contemporary of Socrates. With an assurance characteristic of the later sophists, he claimed to be regarded as an authority on all subjects, ...
, who produced the lists of winners in the Olympic Games that provided the basic chronological framework as long as the pagan classical tradition lasted, and
Hellanicus of Lesbos Hellanicus (or Hellanikos) of Lesbos (Greek: , ''Ἑllánikos ὁ Lésvios''), also called Hellanicus of Mytilene (Greek: , ''Ἑllánikos ὁ Mutilēnaῖos'') was an ancient Greek logographer who flourished during the latter half of the 5th cen ...
, who compiled more than two dozen histories from civic records, all of them now lost. Thucydides largely eliminated divine causality in his account of the war between Athens and Sparta, establishing a rationalistic element which set a precedent for subsequent Western historical writings. He was also the first to distinguish between cause and immediate origins of an event, while his successor Xenophon ( – 355 BC) introduced autobiographical elements and character studies in his '' Anabasis''. The proverbial Philippic attacks of the Athenian orator Demosthenes (384–322 BC) on Philip II of Macedon marked the height of ancient political agitation. The now lost history of Alexander's campaigns by the diadoch Ptolemy I (367–283 BC) may represent the first historical work composed by a ruler.
Polybius Polybius (; grc-gre, Πολύβιος, ; ) was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic period. He is noted for his work , which covered the period of 264–146 BC and the Punic Wars in detail. Polybius is important for his analysis of the mixed ...
( – 120 BC) wrote on the rise of Rome to world prominence, and attempted to harmonize the Greek and Roman points of view. The
Chaldea Chaldea () was a small country that existed between the late 10th or early 9th and mid-6th centuries BCE, after which the country and its people were absorbed and assimilated into the indigenous population of Babylonia. Semitic-speaking, it was ...
n priest Berossus ( BC) composed a Greek-language ''History of
Babylonia Babylonia (; Akkadian: , ''māt Akkadī'') was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Syria). It emerged as an Amorite-ruled state c. ...
'' for the Seleucid king Antiochus I, combining
Hellenistic In Classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in ...
methods of historiography and Mesopotamian accounts to form a unique composite. Reports exist of other near-eastern histories, such as that of the Phoenician historian
Sanchuniathon Sanchuniathon (; Ancient Greek: ; probably from Phoenician: , "Sakon has given"), also known as Sanchoniatho the Berytian, was a Phoenician author. His three works, originally written in the Phoenician language, survive only in partial paraphras ...
; but he is considered semi-legendary and writings attributed to him are fragmentary, known only through the later historians
Philo of Byblos Philo of Byblos ( grc, Φίλων Βύβλιος, ''Phílōn Býblios''; la, Philo Byblius;  – 141), also known as Herennius Philon, was an antiquarian writer of grammatical, lexical and historical works in Greek. He is chiefly known for ...
and Eusebius, who asserted that he wrote before even the Trojan war.


Rome

The Romans adopted the Greek tradition, writing at first in Greek, but eventually chronicling their history in a freshly non-Greek language. While early Roman works were still written in Greek, the '' Origines'', composed by the Roman statesman Cato the Elder (234–149 BC), was written in Latin, in a conscious effort to counteract Greek cultural influence. It marked the beginning of Latin historical writings. Hailed for its lucid style,
Julius Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar (; ; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, and ...
's (103–44 BC) '' de Bello Gallico'' exemplifies autobiographical war coverage. The politician and orator Cicero (106–43 BCE) introduced rhetorical elements in his political writings.
Strabo Strabo''Strabo'' (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed. The father of Pompey was called "Pompeius Strabo". A native of Sicily so clear-sighted that he could see ...
(63 BC –  AD) was an important exponent of the
Greco-Roman The Greco-Roman civilization (; also Greco-Roman culture; spelled Graeco-Roman in the Commonwealth), as understood by modern scholars and writers, includes the geographical regions and countries that culturally—and so historically—were di ...
tradition of combining geography with history, presenting a descriptive history of peoples and places known to his era. Livy (59 BC – 17 AD) records the rise of Rome from city-state to empire. His speculation about what would have happened if Alexander the Great had marched against Rome represents the first known instance of
alternate history Alternate history (also alternative history, althist, AH) is a genre of speculative fiction of stories in which one or more historical events occur and are resolved differently than in real life. As conjecture based upon historical fact, altern ...
. Biography, although popular throughout antiquity, was introduced as a branch of history by the works of Plutarch ( – 125 CE) and
Suetonius Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (), commonly referred to as Suetonius ( ; c. AD 69 – after AD 122), was a Roman historian who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire. His most important surviving work is a set of biographies ...
( – after 130 CE) who described the deeds and characters of ancient personalities, stressing their human side. Tacitus ( CE) denounces Roman immorality by praising
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virtues, elaborating on the topos of the
Noble savage A noble savage is a literary stock character who embodies the concept of the indigene, outsider, wild human, an "other" who has not been "corrupted" by civilization, and therefore symbolizes humanity's innate goodness. Besides appearing in man ...
.


East Asia


China

The Han dynasty eunuch
Sima Qian Sima Qian (; ; ) was a Chinese historian of the early Han dynasty (206AD220). He is considered the father of Chinese historiography for his ''Records of the Grand Historian'', a general history of China covering more than two thousand years b ...
(around 100 BCE) was the first in China to lay the groundwork for professional historical writing. His work superseded the older style of the '' Spring and Autumn Annals'', compiled in the 5th century BC, the ''
Bamboo Annals The ''Bamboo Annals'' (), also known as the ''Ji Tomb Annals'' (), is a chronicle of ancient China. It begins in the earliest legendary time (the age of the Yellow Emperor) and extends to 299 BC, with the later centuries focusing on the history ...
'' and other court and dynastic annals that recorded history in a chronological form that abstained from analysis. Sima's '' Shiji'' ('' Records of the Grand Historian'') pioneered the "Annals-biography" format, which would become the standard for prestige history writing in China. In this genre a history opens with a chronological outline of court affairs, and then continues with detailed biographies of prominent people who lived during the period in question. The scope of his work extended as far back as the 16th century BC, and included many treatises on specific subjects and individual biographies of prominent people. He also explored the lives and deeds of commoners, both contemporary and those of previous eras. Whereas Sima's had been a universal history from the beginning of time down to the time of writing, his successor
Ban Gu Ban Gu (AD32–92) was a Chinese historian, politician, and poet best known for his part in compiling the ''Book of Han'', the second of China's 24 dynastic histories. He also wrote a number of '' fu'', a major literary form, part prose ...
wrote an annals-biography history limiting its coverage to only the Western Han dynasty, the Book of Han (96 AD). This established the notion of using dynastic boundaries as start- and end-points, and most later Chinese histories would focus on a single dynasty or group of dynasties. The Records of the Grand Historian and Book of Han were eventually joined by the
Book of the Later Han The ''Book of the Later Han'', also known as the ''History of the Later Han'' and by its Chinese name ''Hou Hanshu'' (), is one of the Twenty-Four Histories and covers the history of the Han dynasty from 6 to 189 CE, a period known as the Later ...
(488 CE) (replacing the earlier, and now only partially extant, Han Records from the Eastern Pavilion) and the
Records of the Three Kingdoms The ''Records or History of the Three Kingdoms'', also known by its Chinese name as the Sanguo Zhi, is a Chinese historical text which covers the history of the late Eastern Han dynasty (c. 184–220 AD) and the Three Kingdoms period (220– ...
(297 CE) to form the "Four Histories". These became mandatory reading for the
Imperial Examinations The imperial examination (; lit. "subject recommendation") refers to a civil-service examination system in Imperial China, administered for the purpose of selecting candidates for the state bureaucracy. The concept of choosing bureaucrats by ...
and have therefore exerted an influence on Chinese culture comparable to the
Confucian Classics Chinese classic texts or canonical texts () or simply dianji (典籍) refers to the Chinese texts which originated before the imperial unification by the Qin dynasty in 221 BC, particularly the "Four Books and Five Classics" of the Neo-Confucian ...
. More annals-biography histories were written in subsequent dynasties, eventually bringing the number to between twenty-four and twenty-six, but none ever reached the popularity and impact of the first four. Traditional Chinese historiography describes history in terms of dynastic cycles. In this view, each new dynasty is founded by a morally righteous founder. Over time, the dynasty becomes morally corrupt and dissolute. Eventually, the dynasty becomes so weak as to allow its replacement by a new dynasty. In 281 AD the tomb of King Xiang of Wei (d. 296 BC) was opened, inside of which was found a historical text called the
Bamboo Annals The ''Bamboo Annals'' (), also known as the ''Ji Tomb Annals'' (), is a chronicle of ancient China. It begins in the earliest legendary time (the age of the Yellow Emperor) and extends to 299 BC, with the later centuries focusing on the history ...
, after the writing material. It is similar in style to the Spring and Autumn Annals and covers the time from the Yellow Emperor to 299 BC. Opinions on the authenticity of the text has varied throughout the centuries, and in any event it was re-discovered too late to gain anything like the same status as the Spring and Autumn.


Middle Ages to Renaissance


Christendom

Christian historical writing arguably begins with the narrative sections of the New Testament, particularly Luke-Acts, which is the primary source for the Apostolic Age, though its historical reliability is disputed. The first tentative beginnings of a specifically Christian historiography can be seen in Clement of Alexandria in the second century. The growth of Christianity and its enhanced status in the Roman Empire after
Constantine I Constantine I ( , ; la, Flavius Valerius Constantinus, ; ; 27 February 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337, the first one to convert to Christianity. Born in Naissus, Dacia Mediterranea ...
(see
State church of the Roman Empire Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire when Emperor Theodosius I issued the Edict of Thessalonica in 380, which recognized the catholic orthodoxy of Nicene Christians in the Great Church as the Roman Empire's state religion. ...
) led to the development of a distinct Christian historiography, influenced by both
Christian theology Christian theology is the theology of Christianity, Christian belief and practice. Such study concentrates primarily upon the texts of the Old Testament and of the New Testament, as well as on Christian tradition. Christian theology, theologian ...
and the nature of the Christian Bible, encompassing new areas of study and views of history. The central role of the Bible in Christianity is reflected in the preference of Christian historians for written sources, compared to the classical historians' preference for oral sources and is also reflected in the inclusion of politically unimportant people. Christian historians also focused on development of religion and society. This can be seen in the extensive inclusion of written sources in the '' Ecclesiastical History'' of
Eusebius of Caesarea Eusebius of Caesarea (; grc-gre, Εὐσέβιος ; 260/265 – 30 May 339), also known as Eusebius Pamphilus (from the grc-gre, Εὐσέβιος τοῦ Παμφίλου), was a Greek historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christia ...
around 324 and in the subjects it covers.''Historiography''
, Concordia University Wisconsin, retrieved on 2 November 2007
Christian theology considered time as linear, progressing according to divine plan. As God's plan encompassed everyone, Christian histories in this period had a universal approach. For example, Christian writers often included summaries of important historical events prior to the period covered by the work. Writing history was popular among Christian monks and clergy in the Middle Ages. They wrote about the history of Jesus Christ, that of the Church and that of their patrons, the dynastic history of the local rulers. In the Early Middle Ages historical writing often took the form of annals or
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s recording events year by year, but this style tended to hamper the analysis of events and causes. An example of this type of writing is the ''
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle The ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The original manuscript of the ''Chronicle'' was created late in the 9th century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of Alf ...
'', which was the work of several different writers: it was started during the reign of
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in the late 9th century, but one copy was still being updated in 1154. Some writers in the period did construct a more narrative form of history. These included
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and more successfully
Bede Bede ( ; ang, Bǣda , ; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable ( la, Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk at the monastery of St Peter and its companion monastery of St Paul in the Kingdom o ...
, who wrote both secular and
ecclesiastical {{Short pages monitor * Parish, Peter, ed. ''Reader's Guide to American History'' (Routledge, 1997), 880 pp; detailed guide to historiography of American topic
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* Popkin, Jeremy D. ''From Herodotus to H-Net: The Story of Historiography'' (Oxford UP, 2015). * Woolf, Daniel et al. '' The Oxford History of Historical Writing'' (5 vol 2011–r12), covers all major historians since AD 600; se
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Histories of historical writing

* Arnold, John H. ''History: A Very Short Introduction'' (2000). New York: Oxford University Press. * Barnes, Harry Elmer. ''A history of historical writing'' (1962) * Barraclough, Geoffrey. ''History: Main Trends of Research in the Social and Human Sciences'', (1978) * Bauer, Stefan. ''The Invention of Papal History: Onofrio Panvinio between Renaissance and Catholic Reform'' (Oxford University Press, 2020). * Bentley, Michael. ed., ''Companion to Historiography'', Routledge, 1997, , 39 chapters by experts * Boyd, Kelly, ed. ''Encyclopedia of historians and historical writing'' (2 vol. Taylor & Francis, 1999), 1562 pp * Breisach, Ernst. ''Historiography: Ancient, Medieval and Modern'', 3rd edition, 2007, * Budd, Adam, ed. ''The Modern Historiography Reader: Western Sources.'' (Routledge, 2009). * Cline, Howard F., ed.''Latin American History: Essays on Its Study and Teaching, 1898–1965''. 2 vols. Austin: University of Texas Press 1965. * Cohen, H. Floris ''The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry'', (1994), * Conrad, Sebastian. ''The Quest for the Lost Nation: Writing History in Germany and Japan in the American Century'' (2010) * Crymble, Adam. ''Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age'' (University of Illinois, 2021), 241 pp * Fitzsimons, M.A. et al. eds. ''The development of historiography'' (1954) 471 pages; comprehensive global coverage
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* Gilderhus, Mark T. ''History and Historians: A Historiographical Introduction'', 2002, * Iggers, Georg G. ''Historiography in the 20th Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge'' (2005) * Kramer, Lloyd, and Sarah Maza, eds. ''A Companion to Western Historical Thought'' Blackwell 2006. 520 pp; . * Momigliano, Arnaldo. ''The Classical Foundation of Modern Historiography'', 1990, * ''The Oxford History of Historical Writing'' (5 vol 2011), Volume 1: Beginnings to AD 600; Volume 2: 600–1400; Volume 3: 1400–1800; Volume 4: 1800–1945; Volume 5: Historical Writing since 194
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* Rahman, M. M. ed. ''Encyclopaedia of Historiography'' (2006
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* Soffer, Reba. '' History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America: From the Great War to Thatcher and Reagan'' (2009
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* Thompson, James Westfall. ''A History of Historical Writing. vol 1: From the earliest Times to the End of the 17th Century'' (1942
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* Woolf, Daniel, ed. ''A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing'' (2 vol. 1998) * Woolf, Daniel. "Historiography", in ''New Dictionary of the History of Ideas'', ed. M.C. Horowitz, (2005), vol. I. * Woolf, Daniel. ''A Global History of History'' (Cambridge University Press, 2011) * Woolf, Daniel, ed. ''The Oxford History of Historical Writing''. 5 vols. (Oxford University Press, 2011–12).2011) * Woolf, Daniel, ''A Concise History Of History'' (Cambridge University Press, 2019)


Feminist historiography

* Bonnie G. Smith, ''The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice'', Harvard University Press 2000 * Gerda Lerner, ''The Majority Finds its Past: Placing Women in History'', New York: Oxford University Press 1979 * Judith M. Bennett, ''History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism'', University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006 * Julie Des Jardins, ''Women and the Historical Enterprise in America'', University of North Carolina Press, 2002 * Donna Guy, "Gender and Sexuality in Latin America" in ''The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History'', José C. Moya, ed. New York: Oxford University Press 2011, pp. 367–81. * Asunción Lavrin, "Sexuality in Colonial Spanish America" in ''The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History'', José C. Moya, ed. New York: Oxford University Press 2011, pp. 132–54. * Mary Ritter Beard, ''Woman as force in history: A study in traditions and realities'' * Mary Spongberg, ''Writing women's history since the Renaissance'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2002 * Clare Hemmings, "Why Stories Matter: The Political Grammar of Feminist Theory", Duke University Press 2011


National and regional studies

* Berger, Stefan et al., eds. ''Writing National Histories: Western Europe Since 1800'' (1999
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how history has been used in Germany, France & Italy to legitimize the nation-state against socialist, communist and Catholic internationalism * Iggers, Georg G. ''A new Directions and European Historiography'' (1975) * LaCapra, Dominic, and Stephen L. Kaplan, eds. ''Modern European Intellectual History: Reappraisals and New Perspective'' (1982)


Asia and Africa

* Cohen, Paul. ''Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past''. New York, London:: Columbia University Press, Studies of the East Asian Institute, 1984. 237p. Reprinted: 2010, with a New Introduction by the Author. . *
R.C. Majumdar Ramesh Chandra Majumdar (known as R. C. Majumdar; 4 December 1888 – 11 February 1980) was a historian and professor of History of India, Indian history. Majumdar is a noted historian of modern India. He was a former Sheriff of Kolkata. Early ...
, Historiography in Modem India (Bombay, 1970) * Marcinkowski, M. Ismail. ''Persian Historiography and Geography: Bertold Spuler on Major Works Produced in Iran, the Caucasus, Central Asia, India and Early Ottoman Turkey'' (Singapore: Pustaka Nasional, 2003) * Martin, Thomas R. ''Herodotus and Sima Qian: The First Great Historians of Greece and China: A Brief History with Documents'' (2009) * E. Sreedharan, A Textbook of Historiography, 500 B.C. to A.D. 2000 (2004) *
Arvind Sharma Arvind Sharma is the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University. Sharma's works focus on Hinduism, philosophy of religion. In editing books his works include ''Our Religions'' and ''Women in World Religions,'' ''Feminism in W ...
, Hinduism and Its Sense of History (Oxford University Press, 2003) * Shourie, Arun (2014). Eminent historians: Their technology, their line, their fraud. Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India : HarperCollins Publishers. * Yerxa, Donald A. ''Recent Themes in the History of Africa and the Atlantic World: Historians in Conversation'' (2008
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Britain

* Bann, Stephen. ''Romanticism and the Rise of History'' (Twayne Publishers, 1995) * Bentley, Michael. ''Modernizing England's Past: English Historiography in the Age of Modernism, 1870–1970'' (2006
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* Cannadine, David. ''In Churchill's Shadow: Confronting the Passed in Modern Britain'' (2003) * Furber, Elizabeth, ed. ''Changing Views on British History; Essays on Historical Writing Since 1939'' (1966); 418pp; essays by scholars * * * Hale, John Rigby, ed. ''The evolution of British historiography: from Bacon to Namier'' (1967). * Howsam, Leslie. "Academic Discipline or Literary Genre?: The Establishment of Boundaries in Historical Writing." ''Victorian Literature and Culture'' (2004) 32#2 pp. 525–45
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* Hexter, J. H. ''On Historians: Reappraisals of some of the makers of modern history'' (1979); covers Carl Becker, Wallace Ferguson, Fernan Braudel, Lawrence Stone, Christopher Hill, and J.G.A. Pocock * Howsam, Leslie. "Academic Discipline or Literary Genre?: The Establishment of Boundaries in Historical Writing." ''Victorian Literature and Culture'' 32.02 (2004): 525–545
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* Jann, Rosemary. ''The Art and Science of Victorian History'' (1985) * Jann, Rosemary. "From Amateur to Professional: The Case of the Oxbridge Historians." ''Journal of British Studies'' (1983) 22#2 pp: 122–47. * Kenyon, John. ''The History Men: The Historical Profession in England since the Renaissance'' (1983) * Loades, David. ''Reader's Guide to British History'' (2 vol. 2003) 1700pp; 1600-word-long historiographical essays on about 1000 topics * Mitchell, Rosemary. '' Picturing the Past: English History in Text and Image 1830–1870'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000) * Philips, Mark Salber. ''Society and Sentiment: Genres of Historical Writing in Britain, 1740–1820'' (Princeton University Press, 2000). * Richardson, Roger Charles, ed. ''The debate on the English Revolution'' (2nd ed. Manchester University Press, 1998) * Schlatter, Richard, ed. ''Recent Views on British History: Essays on Historical Writing Since 1966'' (1984) 525 pp; 13 topics essays by scholars


=British Empire

= * Berger, Carl. ''Writing Canadian History: Aspects of English Canadian Historical Writing since 1900'', (2nd ed. 1986) * Bhattacharjee, J. B. ''Historians and Historiography of North East India'' (2012) * Davison, Graeme. ''The Use and Abuse of Australian History'', (2000
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* Farrell, Frank. ''Themes in Australian History: Questions, Issues and Interpretation in an Evolving Historiography'' (1990) * Gare, Deborah. "Britishness in Recent Australian Historiography", ''The Historical Journal'', Vol. 43, No. 4 (Dec., 2000), pp. 1145–115
in JSTOR
* Guha, Ranajiit. ''Dominance Without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India'' (Harvard UP, 1998) * Granatstein, J. L. ''
Who Killed Canadian History? ''Who Killed Canadian History?'' is a 1998 book by Canadian historian J. L. Granatstein. The book argues that Canadians lack national unity because of their failure to teach their country's history. Granatstein contends that multiculturalism, ...
'' (1998) * Mittal, S. C ''India distorted: A study of British historians on India'' (1995), on 19th century writers * Saunders, Christopher. ''The making of the South African past: major historians on race and class'', (1988) * Winks, Robin, ed. ''The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography'' (2001)


France

* Burke, Peter. ''The French Historical Revolution: The Annales School 1929–2014'' (John Wiley & Sons, 2015). * * Daileader, Philip and Philip Whalen, eds. ''French Historians 1900–2000: New Historical Writing in Twentieth-Century France'' (2010) 40 long essays by experts
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* Revel, Jacques, and Lynn Hunt, eds. ''Histories: French Constructions of the Past'', (1995). 654pp; 65 essays by French historians * Stoianovich, Traian. ''French Historical Method: The Annales Paradigm'' (1976)


Germany

* Fletcher, Roger. "Recent developments in West German Historiography: the Bielefeld School and its critics." ''German Studies Review'' (1984): 451–480
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* Hagemann, Karen, and Jean H. Quataert, eds. ''Gendering Modern German History: Rewriting Historiography'' (2008) * Iggers, Georg G. ''The German Conception of History: The National Tradition of Historical Thought from Herder to the Present'' (2nd ed. 1983) * Rüger, Jan, and Nikolaus Wachsmann, eds. ''Rewriting German history: new perspectives on modern Germany'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
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* Sheehan, James J. "What is German history? Reflections on the role of the nation in German history and historiography." ''Journal of Modern History'' (1981): 2–23
in JSTOR
* Sperber, Jonathan. "Master Narratives of Nineteenth-century German History." ''Central European History'' (1991) 24#1: 69–91
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* Stuchtey, Benedikt, and Peter Wende, eds. ''British and German historiography, 1750–1950: traditions, perceptions, and transfers'' (2000).


Latin America

* Adelman, Jeremy, ed. ''Colonial Legacies''. New York: Routledge 1999. * Coatsworth, John. "Cliometrics and Mexican History," ''Historical Methods''18:1 (Winter 1985)31–37. * * * Lockhart, James. "The Social History of Early Latin America". ''
Latin American Research Review The ''Latin American Research Review'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on Latin America and the Caribbean. It was established in 1965 by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and is published by LASA's publis ...
'' 1972. * Moya, José C. ''The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History''. New York: Oxford University Press 2011. * *


United States

* Hofstadter, Richard. ''The Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington'' (1968) * Novick, Peter. ''That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession'' (1988), * Palmer, William W. "All Coherence Gone? A Cultural History of Leading History Departments in the United States, 1970–2010", ''Journal of The Historical Society'' (2012), 12: 111–53. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-5923.2012.00360.x * Palmer, William. ''Engagement with the Past: The Lives and Works of the World War II Generation of Historians'' (2001) * Parish, Peter J., ed. ''Reader's Guide to American History'' (1997), historiographical overview of 600 topics * Wish, Harvey. ''The American Historian'' (1960), covers pre-1920


Themes, organizations, and teaching

* Carlebach, Elishiva, et al. eds. ''Jewish History and Jewish Memory: Essays in Honor of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi'' (1998
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* Charlton, Thomas L. ''History of Oral History: Foundations and Methodology'' (2007) * Darcy, R. and Richard C. Rohrs, ''A Guide to Quantitative History'' (1995) *
Dawidowicz, Lucy S. Lucy Dawidowicz ( Schildkret; June 16, 1915 – December 5, 1990) was an American historian and writer. She wrote books about modern Jewish history, in particular, she wrote books about the Holocaust. Life Dawidowicz was born in New York City a ...
''The Holocaust and Historians''. (1981). * Ernest, John. ''Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794–1861''. (2004) * Evans, Ronald W. ''The Hope for American School Reform: The Cold War Pursuit of Inquiry Learning in Social Studies''(Palgrave Macmillan; 2011) 265 pages * Ferro, Marc, ''Cinema and History'' (1988) * Green, Anna, and Kathleeen Troup. ''The Houses of History: A Critical Reader in Twentieth Century History and Theory''. 2 ed. Manchester University Press, 2016. * Hudson, Pat. ''History by Numbers: An Introduction to Quantitative Approaches'' (2002) * Keita, Maghan. ''Race and the Writing of History''. Oxford UP (2000) * Leavy, Patricia. ''Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research'' (2011
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Loewen, James W. James William Loewen (February 6, 1942August 19, 2021) was an American sociologist, historian, and author. He was best known for his 1995 book, '' Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong''. Early life Loewen ...
'' Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong'', (1996) * Manning, Patrick, ed. ''World History: Global And Local Interactions'' (2006) * Maza, Sarah. ''Thinking About History''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. do
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* Meister, Daniel R. "The biographical turn and the case for historical biography" ''History Compass'' (Dec. 2017) DOI: 10.1111/hic3.12436
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Morris-Suzuki, Tessa Tessa Morris-Suzuki (born 29 October 1951 in England), born as Tessa Morris, is a historian of modern Japan and North Korea. She is Professor in the School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, the Australian Nation ...
. ''The Past Within Us: Media, Memory, History'' (2005), *
Ritchie, Donald A. Donald A. Ritchie (born December 23, 1945) is Historian Emeritus of the United States Senate. Education He graduated from the City College of New York in 1967; and received a master's degree, in 1969, and a Ph.D., in 1975, from the University ...
''The Oxford Handbook of Oral History'' (2010
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* Tröhler, Daniel "History and Historiography. Approaches to Historical Research in Education" T. Fitzgerald (ed.), ''THandbook of Historical Studies in Education'' (2019)


References


External links


International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography


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