Historical methods
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Ce manuel bi-média (un livre papier + une plateforme web en Open access) offre un outil pédagogique innovant, inédit dans sa conception comme dans ses contenus. Fondé sur l'apprentissage des méthodes indispensables aux étudiants en... more
In this chapter, I propose a historical equivalent of HPS (‘history and philosophy of science’) called HPH (‘history and philosophy of history’). I start with some brief comments on HPS – what it is and what it is not. Subsequently, I... more
Survey of several disciplines that throw light on decision making (psychology, anthropology, philosophy, history), with the aim of ptting the results into a form useful to historians.
Most scholars of Jewish history believe that there were between 10,000 and 55,000 Jews living in Poland in 1500. These estimates are based on the origin of these Jews: western Germany. The author observes that at the beginning of the... more
The principle of double historization in source studies The principle of double historization is introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. The application of double historization in source studies has been substantiated.... more
Artykuł prezentuje możliwości analizy narracji w kontekście potrzeb warsztatowych historyka dziejów najnowszych.
It is History Lesson for Year 4. The topic is Historical method.
An exploration of the possibility of truth in history, and the false versions of the truth we are fed on.
El cristianismo es más antiguo de lo que pensamos https://lost-history.com/ Ilustración SEQ Ilustración \* ARABIC 1: Bowl de Alexandria datado a finales de II siglo al I siglo d.E.C. "Por Chrest el Mago". El arqueólogo marino francés y... more
This paper examines the encounter between Protestant missionaries and the Jains in nineteenth-century Bombay. It focuses on three Scottish missionary-scholars—John Wilson (1804-1875), John Murray Mitchell (1815-1904), and John Stevenson... more
The object is to unfold the Roman value system governing decision choices, as made evident in relevevant enecdotes and moral propositions.
At the end of the 19th century, most professional historians – wherever they existed – deemed history to be a form of knowledge ruled by a method that bears no resemblance with those most commonly traceable in the natural sciences. The... more
This is a special issue of the Acta Historica Tallinnensia on historical studies in Estonia in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. The whole issue is open access and available for free:... more
Commenting on historiography in medieval Europe. An attempt at the characteristics of the phenomenon on the basis of selected sources from the Romance countries (11th–15th centuries)
چکیده مقاله: نقد ادبی عنصری جداناپذیر از ادبیات است و از روش ها و شیوه های آن برای تحلیل آثار ادبی استفاده می شود. تاریخ گرایی نو که آغاز آن به دهه 1980 برمی گردد، یکی از دستاوردهای اخیر نقد ادبی است که به بررسی تعامل تاریخ و ادبیات... more
This paper has three overarching aims: to contextualise oral history within larger debates over methods in the social sciences; to highlight the peculiar strengths as well as complexities of oral history as a method; and finally to... more
Trots att jag snart har fem års utbildning på universitet bakom mig har det varit oroväckande lite undervisning i vetenskaplig metod. Det gäller särskilt, men inte uteslutande, historievetenskaplig metod som berörs ytligt. Det är... more
This chapter aims to both reflect upon my own fieldwork among the Bugis of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and my engagement with the scholarship of the ethnologist Christian Pelras, who wrote extensively on South Sulawesi culture and history.... more
The dangerosity of wolves for human beings is a staple of old tales such as Little Red Riding Hood or Tom Thumbs. Is it a historical reality, though? And if yes, what was the impact on our ancestors? The perception of the wolf, long... more
In dating the past, inscriptions are the primary sources of evidence. The year of the Mahābhārata war can be deduced from the inscriptions of Janamejaya in whose presence Mahābhārata was recited for the first time. Vyasa, the author, also... more
No prefácio de Estratos do tempo, editado na Alemanha em 2003, Koselleck menciona o plano de publicar duas outras coletâneas de ensaios e conferências que estavam espalhados em diferentes meios. Quando fale-ceu, em fevereiro de 2006,... more
The historiography of natural-resource extraction, especially in colonial contexts, is often torn between two temptations: to represent these histories in narratives commencing with discovery, and thus rupture; or to render them in tales... more
In this chapter, I outline strategies that microhistorians might deploy to investigate the lives of obscure, petty offenders, and to reconstruct their social and cultural milieu. I focus on routine, everyday encounters with the criminal... more
The Journal of Race and Policy, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2015)
Письменные источники - это документы, с которыми связана история как наука. Документы истории и история документов тесно переплетены. Автоматический контент-анализ и компьютерная обработка исторических текстов обрели свое собственное... more
Paper presented at the 72rd Annual MPSA Conference, Chicago, April 2013
Svenska historikermötet, 10-12 maj 2017, Mittuniversitetet, campus Sundsvall, Sessionsomgång 3, 3.17 Didaktik och utbildningshistoria I, Presentation nr. 4 Deltagare: Carl L. Thunberg, Historielärarnas förening, Sundsvallskretsen:... more
Current ethnic conflict in Ethiopia is not a simple byproduct of Multinational federalism and politicization of ethnicity since 1991. Regardless of the contradictions and debates over the core causes of ethnic conflict in Ethiopia, it is... more
This article traces the origins and development of public history in Italy. Public history in the Peninsula has its roots in historical institutions born in the 19th century and in post-WW2 first Italian Republic. The concept of “public... more
This 1990 paper discusses methodological problems in working with medieval hagiographic sources for social history. It shows the potential of such sources taking a 14th century Central Asian source as an example.
""This festschrift in honor of Professor Ayodeji Olukoju, one of Nigeria’s brightest historians, brings together scholarship representative of the third wave of historical scholarship on Nigeria. Olukoju, a pioneering historian of... more
How my survey class turned into an ad-hoc methods course.