Which HISTORIANS are you all covering???? (1 Viewer)

[Zhang San Feng]

historians i ll use...

herodotus
thucydides
tacitus
livy
Sima Qian
St Augustine/Bede
Ranke
Marx
Carr/Elton
Windschuttle
Fukuyama

 

[Demandred]

Herodotus - Grandfather of history
Thucydides - Grandfather of scientific history
Gibbon/Von Ranke - Enlightment, shift away from the church
Bloch/Braudel - Annals
Elton/Carr - Relativism/objectivity (I hope i am right)

 

[trekkie]

Im doing Windschuttle, Reynolds, Herodotus, Daikonof, Braudel, Summers and Commager, and whats wrong with bloody windschuttle, his theory has more reliable evidence and overral strength than Reynolds little ideas ever will!

 

[spazbot]

just wanted to let you know, carr wasn't a postmodernist, although he did 'pave the way' for them, so to speak, because he didn't totally reject the possibility of historian's objectivity, and he thought history was somewhere between an objective compilation of facts and a subjective product of the mind of the historian... for postmodernism do hayden white and foucault or derrida
our teacher suggested we learn about 8 from the source book and any other ones we might want to do, if you just have four they might not be suitable for the question

 

[trekkie]

Yeah its a good idea to have more than 4, thats the absolute minimum that you should have, also make sure that most of them are from a different school of history e.g make sure you have a feminist, marxist, annales, post-structuralist/modernist,oral, empirical, etc. That way you can be sure that some of your historians are going to suit the question, its also a good idea to have a grasp of a few others to support your main historians.

 

[Persephone87]

For the HSC I'll use

Herodotus,
Thucidides
Bede
Von Ranke
Annales
Post Modernism
Carr/Elton
maybe Windshuttle and Anne Summers...

 

[Demandred]

I just re-shuffled my list:

- Herodotus
- Thuycidides
- Gibbon
- Ranke
- Elton & Carr
- Post Modernists
- Irvings vs Evans
- Reynolds vs Windschuttle

 

[launcher169]

Just one question....with all of these historians,
how many of them are you going to talk about in the exam
another q's is detail the better way to go?
for example: I am doing Herodotus, Thucydides
Von Ranke and Marc Bloch
i go into detail about all of these but i always seem to discuss
the father of history debate and i go into extreme detail there

what should i do?