Historiography: An Introductory Guide by Eileen Ka-May Cheng

Historiography: An Introductory Guide by Eileen Ka-May Cheng

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.

This relatively slim volume tells the story of Western historiography since the Renaissance, keeping a clear distance from the usual progressive story lineThe volume is well written; the content, reliable; and the bibliography, well selected. Summing up: Recommended. -- E.A. Breisach, emeritus, Western Michigan University * CHOICE *

Eileen Cheng is Associate Professor in the History Faculty at Sarah Lawrence College. Her research interests include the American Revolution and the early American Republic, American and European intellectual history, and historiography. She has published numerous journal articles and one monograph - The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth: Nationalism and Impartiality in American Historical Writing.

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ISBN 13	9781441109668
ISBN 10	1441109668
Titre	Historiography: An Introductory Guide
Auteur	Eileen Ka-May Cheng
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Type de reliure	Hardback
Éditeur	Continuum Publishing Corporation
Année de publication	2012-05-10
Nombre de pages	256
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