Historiography : Development in the West — Chapter Summary
Maharashtra Board · Class 10 · History and Political Science
Summary of Historiography : Development in the West for Maharashtra Board Class 10 History and Political Science.
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Overview
Notice how history writing changed from simple storytelling to critical study of evidence, ideas, and society. Historiography means the writing of critical historical narrative, and modern historiography asks questions, checks reliable evidence, and explains human life through a wider social lens.
Key Concepts
The writing of critical historical narrative
The writing of critical historical narrative is known as historiography. It studies and explains the past by examining sources carefully.
A scholar who writes such
A scholar who writes such a narrative is a historian.
Ancient communities did not write historiography
Ancient communities did not write historiography in the modern sense, but they preserved the past through cave paintings, storytelling, songs, and bal
Its method is based on scientific
Its method is based on scientific principles, begins with relevant questions, uses reliable evidence, and presents the journey of humankind through pa
Historical research cannot use laboratory experiments
Historical research cannot use laboratory experiments and repeated observation like physical sciences. It depends on critical examination of documents
Learning Objectives
- Define historiography and historian
- Explain the early tradition of recording history
- Describe the four characteristics of modern historiography
- Identify the contributions of Herodotus, Descartes, Voltaire, Hegel, Ranke, Marx, the Annales School, feminist historiography, and Foucault
- Understand how historical research uses methods from different disciplines
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