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Author : Maurice H. Mandelbaum
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (845 download)
Download or read book The Problem of Historical Knowledge written by Maurice H. Mandelbaum and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maurice Mandelbaum
Publisher : Books for Libraries
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Problem of Historical Knowledge written by Maurice Mandelbaum and published by Books for Libraries. This book was released on 1971 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan Megill
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226518302
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Historical Knowledge, Historical Error written by Allan Megill and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past thirty years, historians have broadened the scope of their discipline to include many previously neglected topics and perspectives. They have chronicled language, madness, gender, and sexuality and have experimented with new forms of presentation. They have turned to the histories of non-Western peoples and to the troubled relations between “the West” and the rest. Allan Megill welcomes these developments, but he also suggests that there is now confusion among historians about what counts as a justified account of the past. In Historical Knowledge, Historical Error, Megill dispels some of the confusion. Here, he discusses issues of narrative, objectivity, and memory. He attacks what he sees as irresponsible uses of evidence while accepting the art of speculation, which incomplete evidence forces upon historians. Along the way, he offers succinct accounts of the epistemological road historians have traveled from Herodotus and Thucydides through Leopold von Ranke and Alexis de Tocqueville, and on to Hayden White, Natalie Zemon Davis, and Lynn Hunt.
Author : Susanna Fellman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144383484X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Historical Knowledge written by Susanna Fellman and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Knowledge approaches the topic of historical knowledge in depth and from various angles. It seeks to offer theoretical and methodological building blocks for the use of anyone pursuing historical research. This book brings novel insights into classic and topical issues currently under debate: the importance of theory in historical thinking, the dialectic of “text” and “annotation”, the actor and observer levels, the relationship between the general and the individual, the issue of comparison, and the problem of sporadic sources and of understanding the singularity of each one. The overall theme of the book, the possibility of historical knowledge, reflects the very issue that makes historical research distinctive: the challenges of evidence and the problems, both concrete and conceptual, with deciphering and interpreting remnants of the past. This book refreshes the discussion about sources and proper evidence, two issues that the linguistic turn and the postmodern challenge pushed into the background. The book addresses these issues in an easily accessible way and serves as an introduction and guide to the role of theory, method and evidence in historical research not only for students and scholars of history, but also for anyone outside the field with an interest in the topic. Historical Knowledge is the first book to include texts by the three eminent historians, Professors Natalie Zemon Davis, Carlo Ginzburg and Giovanni Levi. The other contributors, Professors Risto Alapuro, Janken Myrdal and Matti Peltonen, are active debaters in current theoretical and methodo-logical discussion.
Author : M. Mandelbaum
Publisher : Peter Smith Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9780844625188
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (251 download)
Download or read book Problem of Historical Knowledge written by M. Mandelbaum and published by Peter Smith Publisher. This book was released on 1980-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Stanford
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631152910
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Nature of Historical Knowledge written by Michael Stanford and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1986 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original argument, Michael Stanford proposes a single structure to incorporate all aspects of history -events, evidence, interpretations, books and lectures, popular ideas and social effects - into one comprehensive whole. Stanford grounds his study in the common-sense meaning of the word, 'structure'; he then composes one paradigm encompassing the organization of history as a whole and the organization of each of its parts. Dr Stanford locates the poblems of studying story, both philosophical and practical. He clarifies the issues and exemplifies the current thinking of both historians and philosophers.
Author : Maurice Mandelbaum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (561 download)
Download or read book The Problem of Historical Knowledge. An Answer to Relativism, Etc written by Maurice Mandelbaum and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sam Wineburg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022635735X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone) written by Sam Wineburg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at how to teach history in the age of easily accessible—but not always reliable—information. Let’s start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clichés: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percent of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but ignorant. Some of it is deliberately deceptive. All of it is pernicious. With the Internet at our fingertips, what’s a teacher of history to do? In Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone), professor Sam Wineburg has the answers, beginning with this: We can’t stick to the same old read-the-chapter-answer-the-question snoozefest. If we want to educate citizens who can separate fact from fake, we have to equip them with new tools. Historical thinking, Wineburg shows, has nothing to do with the ability to memorize facts. Instead, it’s an orientation to the world that cultivates reasoned skepticism and counters our tendency to confirm our biases. Wineburg lays out a mine-filled landscape, but one that with care, attention, and awareness, we can learn to navigate. The future of the past may rest on our screens. But its fate rests in our hands. Praise for Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone) “If every K-12 teacher of history and social studies read just three chapters of this book—”Crazy for History,” “Changing History . . . One Classroom at a Time,” and “Why Google Can’t Save Us” —the ensuing transformation of our populace would save our democracy.” —James W. Lowen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me and Teaching What Really Happened “A sobering and urgent report from the leading expert on how American history is taught in the nation’s schools. . . . A bracing, edifying, and vital book.” —Jill Lepore, New Yorker staff writer and author of These Truths “Wineburg is a true innovator who has thought more deeply about the relevance of history to the Internet—and vice versa—than any other scholar I know. Anyone interested in the uses and abuses of history today has a duty to read this book.” —Niall Ferguson, senior fellow, Hoover Institution, and author of The Ascent of Money and Civilization
Author : Maurice Mandelbaum
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421431971
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Anatomy of Historical Knowledge written by Maurice Mandelbaum and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1977. In this major work, an overview of the structure of historical writing, Maurice Mandelbaum clarifies some of the problems concerning the nature of history as a discipline, of what constitutes explanation in history, and whether historical knowledge is as reliable as other forms of knowledge. The work is divided into three parts. The first part provides an analytic account of different types of historical inquiry. The second treats at length the nature of causal explanation in everyday life and in science and considers the relation between causes and laws. The final part analyzes the concept of objectivity and estimates both the extent to which the inquiries of historians can be said to be objective and the limits of that objectivity in some types of historical accounts.
Author : Mary Poovey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226675181
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book A History of the Modern Fact written by Mary Poovey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge? How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of economics and the social sciences? Mary Poovey explores these questions in A History of the Modern Fact, ranging across an astonishing array of texts and ideas from the publication of the first British manual on double-entry bookkeeping in 1588 to the institutionalization of statistics in the 1830s. She shows how the production of systematic knowledge from descriptions of observed particulars influenced government, how numerical representation became the privileged vehicle for generating useful facts, and how belief—whether figured as credit, credibility, or credulity—remained essential to the production of knowledge. Illuminating the epistemological conditions that have made modern social and economic knowledge possible, A History of the Modern Fact provides important contributions to the history of political thought, economics, science, and philosophy, as well as to literary and cultural criticism.
Author : Paul Oskar Kristeller
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Problems of Historical Knowledge written by Paul Oskar Kristeller and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alex Rosenberg
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026234842X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book How History Gets Things Wrong written by Alex Rosenberg and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired. To understand something, you need to know its history. Right? Wrong, says Alex Rosenberg in How History Gets Things Wrong. Feeling especially well-informed after reading a book of popular history on the best-seller list? Don't. Narrative history is always, always wrong. It's not just incomplete or inaccurate but deeply wrong, as wrong as Ptolemaic astronomy. We no longer believe that the earth is the center of the universe. Why do we still believe in historical narrative? Our attachment to history as a vehicle for understanding has a long Darwinian pedigree and a genetic basis. Our love of stories is hard-wired. Neuroscience reveals that human evolution shaped a tool useful for survival into a defective theory of human nature. Stories historians tell, Rosenberg continues, are not only wrong but harmful. Israel and Palestine, for example, have dueling narratives of dispossession that prevent one side from compromising with the other. Henry Kissinger applied lessons drawn from the Congress of Vienna to American foreign policy with disastrous results. Human evolution improved primate mind reading—the ability to anticipate the behavior of others, whether predators, prey, or cooperators—to get us to the top of the African food chain. Now, however, this hard-wired capacity makes us think we can understand history—what the Kaiser was thinking in 1914, why Hitler declared war on the United States—by uncovering the narratives of what happened and why. In fact, Rosenberg argues, we will only understand history if we don't make it into a story.
Author : Paul A. Roth
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810140896
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation written by Paul A. Roth and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation, Paul A. Roth resolves disputes persisting since the nineteenth century about the scientific status of history. He does this by showing why historical explanations must take the form of a narrative, making their logic explicit, and revealing how the rational evaluation of narrative explanation becomes possible. Roth situates narrative explanations within a naturalistic framework and develops a nonrealist (irrealist) metaphysics and epistemology of history—arguing that there exists no one fixed past, but many pasts. The book includes a novel reading of Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, showing how it offers a narrative explanation of theory change in science. This book will be of interest to researchers in historiography, philosophy of history, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, and epistemology.
Author : Paul Oskar Kristeller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (464 download)
Download or read book Some Problems of Historical Knowledge written by Paul Oskar Kristeller and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcus Collins
Publisher : London Publishing Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1913019055
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Why Study History? written by Marcus Collins and published by London Publishing Partnership. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering studying history at university? Wondering whether a history degree will get you a good job, and what you might earn? Want to know what it’s actually like to study history at degree level? This book tells you what you need to know. Studying any subject at degree level is an investment in the future that involves significant cost. Now more than ever, students and their parents need to weigh up the potential benefits of university courses. That’s where the Why Study series comes in. This series of books, aimed at students, parents and teachers, explains in practical terms the range and scope of an academic subject at university level and where it can lead in terms of careers or further study. Each book sets out to enthuse the reader about its subject and answer the crucial questions that a college prospectus does not.
Author : R. G. Collingwood
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528766830
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)
Download or read book The Idea of History written by R. G. Collingwood and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robin George Collingwood, FBA (1889 – 1943) was an English historian, philosopher, and archaeologist most famous his philosophical works. Along with “The Principles of Art” (1938), Collingwood's “The Idea of History” was his best-known work, originally collated from numerous sources following his death by a student of his, T. M. Knox. It became a major inspiration for philosophy of history in the western world and is extensively cited to his day. This fascinating volume on history and its relationship to philosophy will appeal to students and collectors of vintage philosophical works alike. Contents include: “The Philosophy of History”, “History's Nature”, “Object”, “Method”, “Greco-Roman Histography”, “The Influence of Christianity”, “The Threshold of Scientific History”, “Scientific History”, “England”, “Germany”, “France”, “Italy”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume today in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Author : Mike Maxwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732120112
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Future-Focused History Teaching written by Mike Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative book challenges the status quo in history eduction by proposing that isolated facts from the past be replaced by knowledge relevant to the future. Not a classroom teaching guide, this book examines the fundamental premises and practices that underlie the work of every history teacher from grade school through graduate school.
