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historiographic

historiographic

8.9
About how people write and study the past
  • adjective
  • /ˌhɪstəriəˈɡræfɪk/
  • Specialized
translation icon : historiográfico
  • This book provides a comprehensive historiographic overview of the Civil War and its enduring impact.
  • historiographic metafiction
  • historiographic narratives
  • historiographic essay

Examples

  • Such assignments could include critical and historiographic essays and papers dealing with the interpretation of primary sources.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Alexandra Schwartz offers a historiographic study of the development of Los Angeles pop art in the 1960s.

    Academic text (2005)
  • According to the German-American historiographic tradition, the Germans played a crucial role in these events?

    Academic text (1994)
  • However, especially for Noiriel and others working on immigration, the implicit and often explicit historiographic reference was that of American history.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Daniel Varisco deals both with the historiographic representation of tribes and the sociopolitical "reality" they represent.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Community college faculty favored short reports, while UNC system faculty were more likely to assign critical or historiographic essays.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Recent works have woven these two historiographic traditions together, revealing more complexity in German-American political allegiances.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Scholarly debates over the motives, ramifications, and effects of tourism frequently parallel historiographic concerns.

    Academic text (1994)
  • The professor gave a lecture on the historiographic methods used in analyzing ancient texts.

  • In her dissertation, she focused on historiographic debates surrounding interpretations of World War II.

Synonyms

historiographical
vshistoriographic
  • Specialized
1 9.9

The study of how people write about the past

is the same in meaning but presented as a different written form

How Scholarly

historiographic
  • Specialized
8.9
historical
400 3.6

Surface Forms

historiographic positive

Morphology

historiographic = historiography (semi-transparent) = historiography + ic

Formed by adding the adjective-forming suffix '-ic' to the noun 'historiography'; the relation is clear morphologically but both elements are academic and may be unfamiliar to average learners.

Etymology

Historiographic comes from history 'stories of the past' and -graph 'to write', as in biography, which is a written life story. So, historiographic means about how history is written or studied.