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Historiography is a word historians use both for the activity and craft of writing history and also for what past historians have written. This bibliographical essay provides a guide to further reading about historiography in both senses and, since anything that people have done in the past can fall within its scope, explores the (fairly porous) boundaries between history and other human sciences.
Introductions
Michael Bentley, Modern Historiography (1999), is a fine introduction. Herbert Butterfield, Man on His Past (1955, reissued 1969), describes the achievement of technical skills by the historians of 18th- and 19th-century Germany, while his posthumous ... (100 of 41377 words)
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- Top of article
- History of historiography
- Branches of history
- Methodology of historiography
- Bibliography