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owidjaja:
--- Quote from: pine-apple01320 on March 09, 2020, 07:12:32 pm ---Hi! Does anyone have any quotes from any historian that are critiquing the annales?
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Hey there,
Welcome to the forums! Here are a couple of quotes I have about the Annalists:
Marc Bloch: "Long have we worked together for a wider and more human history." (a quote from Marnie Hughes-Warrington's "50 Key Thinkers on History")
Michael Harsgor: "If their results were uninspiring they nevertheless encouraged interest in a more scientific approach."
Jean-Pierre V. M. Hérubel, Anne L. Buchanan: "The Annales is a major force in this evolution. Not only is the Annales a form of historiographic phenomenon, it is also an intellectual force which has swept across the Atlantic."
Natalie Zemon Davis: "In many ways the interdisciplinary team of the Annales appears to be a sodality of French brothers."
Hope this helps!
AngeloNguyen:
Any critiques on how I'm approaching my HRP question/critiques on my HRP question itself?
Assess the extent to which Cold War historiography facilitates an understanding of modern German and Russian national identities
I've always been interested in the Cold War as well as how countries involved hold themselves now - almost 30 years after. As to avoid digression into 'content' rather than concepts, I made sure to place a focus on Cold War historiography shaping these present national identities. However, I'm still finding it quite difficult to drive my essay on historiographical concepts rather than diving into things like statistics on Germany - a nation still divided in the socioeconomic differences still present between east and west and how Germany's reunification was more so a reincorporation of the Communist East back into the Capitalist West, as well as Putin's 'megalomania' in filling the shoes of previous superpower USSR - perhaps driven by the revisionist school where US were seen as the aggressors in the CW?
Should I be using historians of the orthodox/revisionist/postrevisionist schools of CW historiography? Or should I also place some focus on the scarce historians I found who have discussed this topic of 'Cold War and national identities'?
owidjaja:
--- Quote from: AngeloNguyen on April 03, 2020, 10:05:47 am ---Any critiques on how I'm approaching my HRP question/critiques on my HRP question itself?
Assess the extent to which Cold War historiography facilitates an understanding of modern German and Russian national identities
I've always been interested in the Cold War as well as how countries involved hold themselves now - almost 30 years after. As to avoid digression into 'content' rather than concepts, I made sure to place a focus on Cold War historiography shaping these present national identities. However, I'm still finding it quite difficult to drive my essay on historiographical concepts rather than diving into things like statistics on Germany - a nation still divided in the socioeconomic differences still present between east and west and how Germany's reunification was more so a reincorporation of the Communist East back into the Capitalist West, as well as Putin's 'megalomania' in filling the shoes of previous superpower USSR - perhaps driven by the revisionist school where US were seen as the aggressors in the CW?
Should I be using historians of the orthodox/revisionist/postrevisionist schools of CW historiography? Or should I also place some focus on the scarce historians I found who have discussed this topic of 'Cold War and national identities'?
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Hey there,
I'm so sorry this took so long for me to respond.
In regards to your question, I'd say to provide a variety of historians from different backgrounds just so you're able to get a variety of opinions. I'm not well-versed in Cold War history, but I'd imagine that a lot of CW historians would contrasting views, especially since a lot of historians' agendas have been shaped by the fact that they probably lived during the Cold War. And depending on how your final essay question is phrased, it could be worth comparing their different views. For example, I did a Major Work on history-based video games and I used quoted American academics, and then compared it to a Russian academic's perspective on how games such as Call of Duty can be damaging to the perception of Russians in video games and pop culture.
And it's also good to also use historians you've studied in the What is History component of the subject. For example, in my essay, I've used EH Carr's ideas to support my arguments even though Carr never analysed a history-based video game (video games probably didn't exist during his time lol).
Hope this helps!
alice343:
Sooo the trial exams are a term away, and our teacher hasn't gone through how to write an essay for extension - should I be worried, because I AM!!!
s110820:
Hi!! I can definitely help you with writing your essay!
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