Quotes Tagged With :historiography

Is it really true... that our aim as historians is in some sense to recapture past reality, “to retrieve....

Marx wrote that 'History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.' This was witty but far from....

...the modern bias in contemporary Western scholarship (which has spread to the rest of the world as....

Reading. The erotics of reading for me -- its moment of trembling pleasure -- lie in those times when....

I might, indeed, read history; but whenever I attempt to do so, I am to tell you the truth, driven from....

As historians, our aim is to do our utmost to understand and elucidate past reality. At the same time,....

I suggest that the Western impact, at least in nineteenth-century China, was overstated (and misstated)....

... the very appearance of the word ‘‘oriental’’ as a serious geographic or cultural term triggers....

History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to....

Our outsideness, after all, is a major part of what makes us different from the direct participants in....