WIllIam H. mcNeIll - Patrick Manning
... In the logic and rhetoric of his synthetic writing, McNeill has played the role of Lucretius, the brilliant Roman poet and devotee of Epicurean philosophy. Lucretius exceeded his austere master in articulating Epicureanism by presenting it in the form of a long poem in hexameter verse. In De Rerum N ...
... In the logic and rhetoric of his synthetic writing, McNeill has played the role of Lucretius, the brilliant Roman poet and devotee of Epicurean philosophy. Lucretius exceeded his austere master in articulating Epicureanism by presenting it in the form of a long poem in hexameter verse. In De Rerum N ...
Pirenne and economic and social theory
... Following the direction of his teachers, he again emphasised the need for being careful about the general application of 'rules' and patterns and the necessity to contextualise and verify the theoretical point de vue. In the introduction he wrote for Karl Bücher's book (1901), Pirenne already expre ...
... Following the direction of his teachers, he again emphasised the need for being careful about the general application of 'rules' and patterns and the necessity to contextualise and verify the theoretical point de vue. In the introduction he wrote for Karl Bücher's book (1901), Pirenne already expre ...
Florida Next Generation Sunshine State Standards Florida Next
... Physical Systems, Human Systems, Environment, The Uses of Geography) as the organizing framework for understanding the world and its people. BODY OF KNOWLEDGE ...
... Physical Systems, Human Systems, Environment, The Uses of Geography) as the organizing framework for understanding the world and its people. BODY OF KNOWLEDGE ...
David Riesman, Alexis de Tocqueville and History: A Look at The
... religious, cultural, and political developments. Braudel derided these as "evenement." Only the first tier really mattered, and since the essential subject matter for the historian was the material condition of the masses, one could look at the period 1400-1800 and conclude that nothing, absolutely ...
... religious, cultural, and political developments. Braudel derided these as "evenement." Only the first tier really mattered, and since the essential subject matter for the historian was the material condition of the masses, one could look at the period 1400-1800 and conclude that nothing, absolutely ...
Tools of the Historian JAT2005
... Geography Historians try to understand how climate, landforms, and human activities have shaped past events. Reading Focus Have you ever had a party or sports event cancelled because of bad weather? Read to find out how historians study the effects of the natural world on history. Geography is the s ...
... Geography Historians try to understand how climate, landforms, and human activities have shaped past events. Reading Focus Have you ever had a party or sports event cancelled because of bad weather? Read to find out how historians study the effects of the natural world on history. Geography is the s ...
Tools of the Historian
... Geography Historians try to understand how climate, landforms, and human activities have shaped past events. Reading Focus Have you ever had a party or sports event cancelled because of bad weather? Read to find out how historians study the effects of the natural world on history. Geography is the s ...
... Geography Historians try to understand how climate, landforms, and human activities have shaped past events. Reading Focus Have you ever had a party or sports event cancelled because of bad weather? Read to find out how historians study the effects of the natural world on history. Geography is the s ...
What is History about?
... rigor or devalue accuracy. History has an irreducible positivistic element, for its subject is real, even if that reality is evanescent and dependent upon texts. Historical writing creates objects for our thoughts, making audible what had become inaudible, extracting latent information from the obje ...
... rigor or devalue accuracy. History has an irreducible positivistic element, for its subject is real, even if that reality is evanescent and dependent upon texts. Historical writing creates objects for our thoughts, making audible what had become inaudible, extracting latent information from the obje ...
Uncovering the Past Chapter 1
... wind can wear down mountains into flat plains • Landforms can also affect climate. Ex. mountain ranges create two very different climates. • Environment: includes all the living and nonliving things that affect life in an area. Ex. climate, land, water, plants, soil, animals, etc. ...
... wind can wear down mountains into flat plains • Landforms can also affect climate. Ex. mountain ranges create two very different climates. • Environment: includes all the living and nonliving things that affect life in an area. Ex. climate, land, water, plants, soil, animals, etc. ...
Methods in World History
... unintelligible sources divided by wide cultural distances, and, finally, to methods for measuring long-term economic relations between countries and regions. For quite a few global historians, the major methodological mission is different from ours. It is to find ways to resist ideological tendencie ...
... unintelligible sources divided by wide cultural distances, and, finally, to methods for measuring long-term economic relations between countries and regions. For quite a few global historians, the major methodological mission is different from ours. It is to find ways to resist ideological tendencie ...
Unit 1 Maps, Time, and World History Section 1
... organization and selection. By taking a thematic approach, by paying attention to space, scale, and time, and by using appropriate units of analysis, world history can be made meaningful in many ways to many people. World historians recognize that there are multiple narratives and multiple perspecti ...
... organization and selection. By taking a thematic approach, by paying attention to space, scale, and time, and by using appropriate units of analysis, world history can be made meaningful in many ways to many people. World historians recognize that there are multiple narratives and multiple perspecti ...
How Historians Work (HAA)
... ways of thinking as “habits of mind.” Three habits are particularly helpful in the study of world history. The first habit is to look for global patterns over time and space. This means examining events at different times and in different places to see how they might be connected. It also means conn ...
... ways of thinking as “habits of mind.” Three habits are particularly helpful in the study of world history. The first habit is to look for global patterns over time and space. This means examining events at different times and in different places to see how they might be connected. It also means conn ...
History
... art, which traditionally had been the case. Some of the leading advocates of history as a social science were a diverse collection of scholars which included Fernand Braudel, E. H. Carr, Fritz Fischer, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Bruce Trigger, Marc Bloch, Karl Dietrich Bracher, Pet ...
... art, which traditionally had been the case. Some of the leading advocates of history as a social science were a diverse collection of scholars which included Fernand Braudel, E. H. Carr, Fritz Fischer, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Bruce Trigger, Marc Bloch, Karl Dietrich Bracher, Pet ...
SOCIAL HISTORY AND AFRIKANER HISTORIOGRAPHY IN A
... outside of the process of capital accumulation. Consequently they were also not predisposed to question the underlying principles of the value system of the emergent middle classes, but rather inclined to regard the Afrikaner's conquest of certain capitalist bastions as a "natural" continuation of t ...
... outside of the process of capital accumulation. Consequently they were also not predisposed to question the underlying principles of the value system of the emergent middle classes, but rather inclined to regard the Afrikaner's conquest of certain capitalist bastions as a "natural" continuation of t ...
Dewald Crisis - Acsu Buffalo
... The crisis of the seventeenth century has endured, in short, because it is a debate less about specific events in the early modern period than about the preconditions of European modernity, economic, political, and cultural, and hence about Europe's relations with other societies around the world. ...
... The crisis of the seventeenth century has endured, in short, because it is a debate less about specific events in the early modern period than about the preconditions of European modernity, economic, political, and cultural, and hence about Europe's relations with other societies around the world. ...
The Historical “Dispute of the New World.” European Historians of
... encouraged to establish new chairs in American history. By the time this trend also involved the traditional universities, scholars were already shifting their interest to new areas of study: US historiography was guiding part of their research with topics such as gender and reform, which matched be ...
... encouraged to establish new chairs in American history. By the time this trend also involved the traditional universities, scholars were already shifting their interest to new areas of study: US historiography was guiding part of their research with topics such as gender and reform, which matched be ...
Themes of World History
... In this text, historical periods are based on major eras in global history. Certain lessons reflect this “big picture” focus. For example, Lesson 4 looks at growing interactions among world regions after 300 C.E. Lesson 10 covers global expansion between 1400 and 1800. Lesson 14 examines revolution ...
... In this text, historical periods are based on major eras in global history. Certain lessons reflect this “big picture” focus. For example, Lesson 4 looks at growing interactions among world regions after 300 C.E. Lesson 10 covers global expansion between 1400 and 1800. Lesson 14 examines revolution ...
Schools of History
... be distinguished from local history, in which research is not seen as a case study for more general historical trends, but is appreciated for its inherent interest to the local community. Military history Military history is a humanities discipline within the scope of general historical recording of ...
... be distinguished from local history, in which research is not seen as a case study for more general historical trends, but is appreciated for its inherent interest to the local community. Military history Military history is a humanities discipline within the scope of general historical recording of ...
Historical practice - Scholars at Harvard
... themselves to be embattled and are on the defensive, throughout and beyond the English-speaking world; and their methods – particularly, the long-term analytical perspective afforded by History – can help to identify meaningful rather than misplaced causes for concern. What might be done to snatch H ...
... themselves to be embattled and are on the defensive, throughout and beyond the English-speaking world; and their methods – particularly, the long-term analytical perspective afforded by History – can help to identify meaningful rather than misplaced causes for concern. What might be done to snatch H ...
Unravelling Complexity: History
... Why did the number of English-speaking peoples increase so massively and spread so rapidly over so much of the globe in the nineteenth century. ...
... Why did the number of English-speaking peoples increase so massively and spread so rapidly over so much of the globe in the nineteenth century. ...
Historiography
... developing social trends. In this view, it may include areas of economic history, legal history and the analysis of other aspects of civil society that show the evolution of social norms, behaviors and mores. It is distinguished from political history, military history and the so-called history of g ...
... developing social trends. In this view, it may include areas of economic history, legal history and the analysis of other aspects of civil society that show the evolution of social norms, behaviors and mores. It is distinguished from political history, military history and the so-called history of g ...