Quotes about Historiography

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European historians have often, though not unanimously, assumed that European modern warfare was the one true path, a sy — Peter A. Lorge, The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb
I might, indeed, read history; but whenever I attempt to do so, I am to tell you the truth, driven from it by disgust—Wh — Charlotte Turner Smith, Desmond
Guns neither initiated nor enabled larger changes. Economic, political, and social development preceded and laid the fou — Peter A. Lorge, The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb
The bible is history. Remember that it is not a book. It is a library. It contains many kinds of books, letters, songs, — David C. Alves, We're the sons of God. . .So What?: Believe God About Who You Really Are!
I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material accordin — Antony Beevor
History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But th — Edward Hallett Carr, What Is History?
Reading. The erotics of reading for me -- its moment of trembling pleasure -- lie in those times when I realise that wha — Greg Dening, Readings/Writings
The person who expects to understand history must submerge himself in it, must get rid of patriotism, as well as bittern — Américo Castro
Progress in human affairs, whether in science or in history or in society, has come mainly through the bold readiness of — Edward Hallett Carr, What Is History?
Good historians...have the future in their bones — Edward Hallett Carr, What Is History?
Historical periodization always tells a story. It is a narrative device for putting meaning into the flux of historical — James Ferguson
People who are not historians sometimes think of history as the facts about the past. Historians are supposed to know ot — Paul A. Cohen, Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
Technology is often portrayed as an objective measure of development, and its advancement as something that can be exami — Peter A. Lorge, The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb
Our outsideness, after all, is a major part of what makes us different from the direct participants in history and enabl — Paul A. Cohen, Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
Is it really true... that our aim as historians is in some sense to recapture past reality, “to retrieve the truth about — Paul A. Cohen, Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
Where the Depression years had aroused a deep sense of concern over how American wealth was distributed and American soc — Paul A. Cohen, Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
Indebtedness among historians is a peculiar thing, however. We don’t simply, in mechanical fashion, inherit a body of kn — Paul A. Cohen, Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
I suggest that the Western impact, at least in nineteenth-century China, was overstated (and misstated) by an earlier ge — Paul A. Cohen, Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
...the modern bias in contemporary Western scholarship (which has spread to the rest of the world as well) insists upon — Peter A. Lorge, The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb
Perhaps the strangest manifestation of the Eurocentric approach to the history of military technology is ... the attempt — Peter A. Lorge, The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb