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This book is truly interdisciplinary, it asks how researchers from
the humanities and natural sciences engage with and uncover the
past and how their present influences what they and how the past is
used for different purposes. This book informs students and
researchers from each of the disciplines about the ways and
pitfalls of each approach to inform their own research.
Contributions from historians, literary scholars, geologist,
cosmologists, evolutionary biologists, paleontologists and
paleoanthropologists are given equal weight and asked how they
engage with the past and present to offer, for the first time, a
forum for each discipline to learn from each other and to offer new
ideas of how the past can be engaged with from the present. The
Engaging with … series offers practical instruction alongside
theoretical standpoints to encourage an interdisciplinary
discussion of emerging areas of collaboration.
Thoughtful and scholarly, yet accessible, "The Changing Face of the
Past: An Introduction to Western Historiography" provides readers
with an overview of the changing approaches to understanding the
past in the western world over the last 2,500 years. Arguing that
it is indispensable for students of history to have a familiarity
with the history of their discipline, it demonstrates how these
precursors were essential in forming our present views on how
history should be composed. Beginning with the earliest historical
thought and ending with the twentieth century the book explores
diverse voices and perspectives on the past through a combination
of expository essays by the author and carefully selected
primary-source selections that reflect the essays most important
themes.
The opening chapter addresses the basic concepts of history,
historians, and historiography, providing definitions of key terms
and critical information on the role and conventions of historians.
Subsequent chapters survey periods of history chronologically,
adding philosophical context, and exploring the significance of
varying viewpoints from the writers of the time. These chapters
include: Beginnings: The Invention of History; Roman History;
History in the Middle Ages; Early Modern Historiography; History
and Enlightenment; Historicism and Empiricism; and Into the
Twentieth Century.
As students read through the material they are exposed to some of
the most important figures in the development of western historical
thought, including Herodotus, Tacitus, Guicciardini, Gibbon, and
Marx. They learn that history has never been the mere
representation of past events. History can be purely pragmatic. It
can be a moral enterprise. It can be an expression of culture. It
can reflect the highest aspirations, and it can come from a place
of crisis.
"The Changing Face of the Past" gives students a sweeping yet
detailed introduction to important primary source material. It
challenges them to consider what these writings say about the past
and more importantly, what they say about history s ongoing
endeavor to describe, explain, and interpret it.
Paul Dover earned his Ph.D. at Yale University. Dr. Dover, a
historian of Europe and the Mediterranean world in the late
medieval and early modern periods, is on the faculty at Kennesaw
State University where he teaches historiography, and is an
instructor in the first-year honors Great Books program. His
research interests focus on the political, diplomatic, and cultural
history of Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries with an
emphasis on diplomacy in the Renaissance. Dr. Dover's professional
writing has appeared in the Journal of Early Modern History, the
"Journal of Urban History," and the "International Journal of the
Classical Tradition.""
This provocative new history of early modern Europe argues that
changes in the generation, preservation and circulation of
information, chiefly on newly available and affordable paper,
constituted an 'information revolution'. In commerce, finance,
statecraft, scholarly life, science, and communication, early
modern Europeans were compelled to place a new premium on
information management. These developments had a profound and
transformative impact on European life. The huge expansion in paper
records and the accompanying efforts to store, share, organize and
taxonomize them are intertwined with many of the essential
developments in the early modern period, including the rise of the
state, the Print Revolution, the Scientific Revolution, and the
Republic of Letters. Engaging with historical questions across many
fields of human activity, Paul M. Dover interprets the historical
significance of this 'information revolution' for the present day,
and suggests thought-provoking parallels with the informational
challenges of the digital age.
This provocative new history of early modern Europe argues that
changes in the generation, preservation and circulation of
information, chiefly on newly available and affordable paper,
constituted an 'information revolution'. In commerce, finance,
statecraft, scholarly life, science, and communication, early
modern Europeans were compelled to place a new premium on
information management. These developments had a profound and
transformative impact on European life. The huge expansion in paper
records and the accompanying efforts to store, share, organize and
taxonomize them are intertwined with many of the essential
developments in the early modern period, including the rise of the
state, the Print Revolution, the Scientific Revolution, and the
Republic of Letters. Engaging with historical questions across many
fields of human activity, Paul M. Dover interprets the historical
significance of this 'information revolution' for the present day,
and suggests thought-provoking parallels with the informational
challenges of the digital age.
One of the prominent themes of the political history of the 16th
and 17th centuries is the waxing influence officials in the
exercise of state power, particularly in international relations,
as it became impossible for monarchs to stay on top of the
increasingly complex demands of ruling. Encompassing a variety of
cultural and institutional settings, these essays examine how state
secretaries, prime ministers and favourites managed diplomatic
personnel and the information flows they generated. They explore
how these officials balanced domestic matters with external
concerns, and service to the monarch and state with personal
ambition. By opening various perspectives on policy-making at the
level just below the monarch, this volume offers up rich
opportunities for comparative history and a new take on the
diplomatic history of the period.
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