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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"History of historiography"”.
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The History of Greek and Roman Historiography
The development of Greek and Roman historiography is difficult to describe. So many ancient histories are lost and those that survive are hardly representative. In this thesis I argue that despite these difficulties some historiographical trends remain discernible, and examine three such …
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Conor Cruise O'Brien, public intellectuals, and politics in twentieth-century Ireland
… mid-twentieth century Ireland, where the figure of the intellectual in politics was routinely maligned or altogether rejected by a broad cross-section of civil society for being insufficiently deferential to societal norms and out of touch with the ‘real world’. It focuses on a major case study, …
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Text, Knowledge and Truth In the Duchy of Luxembourg, 1666-1781
… by which communities in the Habsburg Duchy of Luxembourg produced texts, generated knowledge and claimed truth between the first Marian election of 1666 and the centenary celebration of her patronage in 1781. The introduction identifies the Duchy as a contested historiographical entity and …
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History Writing and History Making in Twentieth Century Beirut
This dissertation takes the idea of modern history as its subject of study. It investigates one thread of Arab historicism—belief in the primacy of history as the key to all human knowledge—by examining the intellectual and pedagogical endeavours of Constantine Zurayq (1909-2000) and his ilk. In …
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Contemporary History and Its Publics in Italy, 1640-1740
This dissertation investigates the writing of contemporary history in Italy and the emergence of a reading public during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In accordance with humanist conventions, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century historians were often retired statesmen, who …