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Historiography
Historiography people and important terms
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Undergraduate 4
04/30/2006

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Epistemology
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The study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity
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Empericism
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The practice of relying on observation and experiment
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Analytical Tools
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Relating to analysis tools to analyze history
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Positivism
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A theory that theology and metaphysics are earlier imperfect modes of knowledge and that positive knowleddge is based on natural phenomena and their properties and relations are verified by the emperical sciences. The quiality or state of being positive
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A priori
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Relating to reasoning from self-evident propositions formedor convieced beforehand.
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Rhetoric
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The art of speaking or writing effectevly.
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Relavitism
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A view that ethicial truths depend on the individuals and groups holding them. A theory that knowledge is relative to the limited nature of the mind and condidtions of knowledge.
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Subjectivism
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The theory that stresses the subjective elemtns in experience. Or theory that limits knowledge to subjective experience.
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Leopold von Ranke
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Write only what happened.
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Geoffrey Elton
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Defender of empericism and the scientific method in history.
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Christopher Hill
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Marxist historian. Believed that Civil War was the turning point for the United States to become capitolist.
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Sigmund Freud
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Psychohistory forerunner.
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Eric Ericson
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Psychohistorian who analyzed Hitler's childhood.
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Lucian Fabvre and Marc Block
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Founders of the annals. Concept of totaly history which contains EVERYTHING.
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Auguste Comte
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Father of sociology.
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Charles Tilly
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Sociologist and historian who used quantitative measures.
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Theda Skocpol
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Compares China, Russia and France revolutions and merges history with sociology.
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Max Weber
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Sociologist who is noted for writing Protestatn Ethic and Spirit of Capitolism.
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Emile Durkhelm
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Wrote historical sociology
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Clifford Geetz
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Idea of thick description. Merged anthropology with history.
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Franz Boas
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Thropologist who believes that race, culture, and language are seperate aspects of existance. Merged mepericism and anthropology.
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Inga Clendinnen
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Compbines anthopology with history and writes on the history of women.
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Samuel Morrison
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Wrote the blue book
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Eric Hobsbawn
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Marxist historian who employs oral history and works with psychologist history of memory.
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Joan Kelly
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Gender historian was there a Renaissance for women?
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Edward Said
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Professor at Columbia. Originally from Lebanon known for book Orientalism which was about French and British emperialism.
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Henrietta Whiteman
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Grandmother was Native American. Believed that the history of Native Americans was prodomonatly oral history.
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Jaxques Drrida
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French philosopher and deconstructualist historian Study history of thought. Opposite of von Ranke
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Michel Foucault
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Post structualist system of thoughts the concept of power and its affect on history.
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