Quotes Tagged With :historiography

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

China failed to maintain its technological lead, and a similar failure throughout Asia to take advantage....

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

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

Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.

Good historians...have the future in their bones

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

People who are not historians sometimes think of history as the facts about the past. Historians are....

Technology is often portrayed as an objective measure of development, and its advancement as something....

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