Quotes Tagged With :historiography

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

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

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

Indebtedness among historians is a peculiar thing, however. We don’t simply, in mechanical fashion,....

It is a truism, easily forgotten, that the West, in its modern phase, has not stood still. Also easily....

Good historians...have the future in their bones

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

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

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

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their....