2019
Three points about history, Especially for non-historians
Publication
Publication
Canadian Journal of History , Volume 54 - Issue 1-2 p. 1- 20
This is a practical essay meant especially for scholars trained in other disciplines or interdisciplinarians who want to "historicize" their topics but are unclear about historical methodology. It argues that historical scholarship, above all, pursues a rigorous understanding of how historical context creates transformation over time and historical contingency. Three subsections discuss the interpretive quality of history, historical context and contingency, and the archive as central to debates about historical explanations of the present. Each subsection includes advice for scholars who want to historicize their projects.
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Archives, Contingency, Historical context, Historicism, History discipline, Interdisciplinarity, Teaching history | |
dx.doi.org/10.3138/cjh.ach.54.1-2.01 | |
Canadian Journal of History | |
Organisation | Department of History |
Kinsey, D.C. (2019). Three points about history, Especially for non-historians. Canadian Journal of History (Vol. 54, pp. 1–20). doi:10.3138/cjh.ach.54.1-2.01
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