HIS 2100 Lecture 4: Lecture 4 - How did we get here, or, “The History of History.”.docx
27 Mar 2015
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Lecture 4 - how did we get here, or, the history of history. Postmodernism is a rejection to modernist approaches to history, for example, language is not natural, it"s a human creation (attacks naturalism because there is nothing natural) Evans is having a conversation with other historians since elton and carr"s time. Talks about the past, differences between religions, brings us to the modern perspective with. Ranke: ranke makes a big problem of how german language is not translated properly criticizes other historians. Spadework doing basic, easy work to prepare for something: how can i relate this source to other sources in the period, why does this person believe this was the prevailing thought of the time. Evans goes through the idea, is history the idea of going through facts looking for an answer, or is history used for.
