historiography
- noun
- /ˌhɪstəˈriˌɑɡrəfi/
- Specialized
- The course on historiography focused on the techniques that historians use to analyze past narratives.
- American historiography
- immigration historiography
- social historiography
Parmall's research ranges across ethics, aesthetics, theology, historiography and literary criticism.
- Parmall's research ranges across ethics, aesthetics, theology, historiography and literary criticism.
Examples
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The power of national historiography to shape historical practice remains impressive.
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The study of historiography allows us to understand how history has been interpreted differently over time.
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No, his history and historiography are two connected but different things.
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To compare itself to the American case has had several functions in French historiography.
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Beyond this, we must ask what history means for these writers and how it relates to historiography.
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While these Spanish American works, unlike their European equivalents, have become a central concern in recent historiography, earlier historians largely neglected them.
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First of all, one of the central elements of historiography turns upon its implicit hypothesis of temporal flow.
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Most importantly, Dvorak's historiography of artistic difference emphasized a complex relationship between nationalism and art.
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A sense of historical discontinuity informs much early sixteenth-century historiography.
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In her thesis, she discussed the methodologies employed in historiography to ensure accuracy in historical writing.
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Etymology
Historiography comes from history, meaning 'the story of the past', and the ending -graphy, meaning 'writing'. So historiography is the study of how historians write and think about the past.