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historiography en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /hɪˌstɒɹiˈɒɡɹəfi/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /hɪˌstɔɾeˈɔɡɾəfe/ (Scotland)
• /hɪˌstɔɹiˈɑɡɹəfi/ (Canada, US)

Etymology

Etymology tree English historio- Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-ā́ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ) Ancient Greek -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā)bor. French -graphieder. English -graphy English historiography From historio- + -graphy.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The writing of history; a written history.
   • As was mentioned on p.31, value-judgments are generally considered the most conspicuous source of subjectivity in historiography. 1991, Els Elffers-van Ketel, The Historiography of Grammatical Concepts, Rodopi, page 51:
   • We limited the discussion to historiographies examining the development of the modern Middle East from World War I onward. 2006, “Introduction”, in Israel Gershoni, Amy Singer, Y. Hakan Erdem, editors, Middle East Historiographies: Narrating the Twentieth Century, University of Washington Press, page 7:
   • This article examines the usages of the notion of “revival” in the context of nineteenth-century Balkan history and, more precisely, in different national historiographies in the region. 2015, Alexander Vezenkov, Tchavdar Marinov, “The Concept of National Revival in Balkan Historiographies”, in Roumen Daskalov, Alexander Vezenkov, editors, Entangled Histories of the Balkans, Volume 3: Shared Pasts, Disputed Legacies, Koninklijke Brill, page 406:
2. (uncountable) The study of the discipline and practice of history and the writings of past historians.
   • Thus in this brief and schematic survey of modern Indian historiography an emphasis is placed on the role of the concept of the Indian nation in the writing of Indian history; this will provide contextual knowledge for the following chapters. 2009, Nicole Weickgenannt Thiara, Salman Rushdie and Indian Historiography: Writing the Nation into Being, Palgrave Macmillan, page 6:
   • Consistently the most underestimated and neglected debate in recent British historiography is that between Perry Anderson and Edward Thompson conducted in the mid-1960s in the pages of the New Left Review and the Socialist Register. 2006, Keith Nield, “22: A Symptomatic Dispute?: Notes on the relations between Marxian theory and historical practice in Britain”, in Robert M. Burns, editor, Historiography: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies, Volume 2: Society, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 91:
   • In its broadest sense, historiography has to do with the process of historical writing, the identification and use of source material, and the techniques and methods applied to the analysis of these data. 1999, B. W. Higman, “1: The Development of Historical Disciplines in the Caribbean”, in B. W. Higman, editor, General History of the Caribbean, Volume 4: Methodology and Historiography of the Caribbean, UNESCO Publishing, page 5:

Forms

Relateds

historiographical · historiographer · historiographic · historiographically · historiograph

Translations (43)

ka ისტორიოგრაფია (writing of history) · tl historyograpiya (writing of history) · es historiografía (writing of history) · hu történetírás (writing of history) · tl historyograpiya (study of the discipline and practice of history) · vi sử chí (writing of history) · ga scríobh na staire (writing of history) · cmn 史學 /史学 (study of the discipline and practice of history) · ru историогра́фия (study of the discipline and practice of history) · hy պատմագիտություն (study of the discipline and practice of history) · pl historiografia (writing of history) · vi sử chí học (study of the discipline and practice of history) · ka ისტორიოგრაფია (study of the discipline and practice of history) · de Historiografie (writing of history) · kk тарихнама (study of the discipline and practice of history) · de Geschichtsschreibung (writing of history) · da historigrafi (study of the discipline and practice of history) · fi historiografia (study of the discipline and practice of history) · el ιστοριογραφία (study of the discipline and practice of history) · el ιστοριογραφία (writing of history) · ga staireagrafaíocht (writing of history) · nl geschiedschrijving (study of the discipline and practice of history) · fr historiographie (study of the discipline and practice of history) · tr historiyografi (writing of history) · fi historiankirjoitus (writing of history) · tr tarihyazımı (writing of history) · fi kirjoitettu historia (writing of history) · ga staireagrafaíocht (study of the discipline and practice of history) · hy պատմագրություն (writing of history) · pl historiografia (study of the discipline and practice of history) · da historieskrivning (writing of history) · tr tarihyazımı (study of the discipline and practice of history) · es historiografía (study of the discipline and practice of history) · gl historiografía (writing of history) · ru историогра́фия (writing of history) · cmn 史料編纂法 /史料编纂法 (writing of history) · gl historiografía (study of the discipline and practice of history) · ca historiografia (writing of history) · cmn 編史 /编史 (writing of history) · cmn 歷史學 /历史学 (study of the discipline and practice of history) · tr historiyografi (study of the discipline and practice of history) · ca historiografia (study of the discipline and practice of history) · kk тарихнама (writing of history)