HIST 2450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: English Civil War, Socioeconomics
19 Apr 2016
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Discipline divided by divisions, categories, theories/politics (marxist, etc), methods, sources used that historians favour (economics, gender, cultural, social, political, national historians etc. believe that historical experience is derived from that. A set of assumptions about what is important and merits attention. English civil war: why it happened depends upon the theories the historians favour (class/socio-economics, politics) New understandings can emerge as new sources are released/discovered. Beyond this, who practices history impacts what history is told (working class, gender, sexuality, race/cultural histories are told more as people within those groups produce histories) Famine hasn"t been critically looked at; terminology not contested ( famine") Irelands suffering ignored in narrative of r scholars. Political history - formal organization and exercise of power in society. Marxist/classical - emphasis on socio-economics, rise of the bourgeoise. Revisionist - modern political culture; changes in theories and institutions, practices, symbols through which political power used/contested. Sources from the archives of the french marines and in caribbean colonies.
