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HIS 4140- HISTORICAL EPISTEMOLOGY CRN 81108 |
READINGS:
MODERN
HISTORIOGRAPHY PAGES 9-70
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT: Due September 14 - be prepared to discuss on September 7
Please write a one to two paragraph answer on the following questions:
1. In your opinion, what contributions did Vico and Condorcet make to present day writing and understanding of history.
2. Considering the contributions of the philosophes , including the Encyclopedia, do you think they viewed history as a philosophy? Do you think the German movement was a Counter-Enlightenment as the book states or part of a wider western world movement? Why or why not?
3. How would you characterize the historiography of the 19th century?
4. Ranke is considered one of the greatest influences in US historiography and in the teaching of history in the US. Why do you think this is so? How have you "learned" history in the Rankian style?
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Florida Gulf Coast University