This is the essential primer on the complexities of history
writing, and writing history. "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.
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