Theory of Knowledge - Course Companion for Students Marija Uzunova Dang Arvin Singh Uzunov Dang

II. Perspectives
qustion w xplord in stion I: what is
th
and what do historians do? Typially
history
nountr two shools of thought,
studnts
y two txtooks—Goffry Elton’s
xmplifid
Practice of History and E.H. Carr’s What is
The
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History?
and Carr hav not movd far from th
Elton
rading lists of history studnts for
rquird
dads, though svral historians, suh
many
Kith Jnkins (1995), hav suggstd that
as
various rasons this approah is “no longr
for
nough”.
good
xplor th Elton-Carr dat in III.2,
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should not first that oth Elton and Carr
ut
British historians, and it is important
wr
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to
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history
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th
akgrounds, as ompard with
thni
in undrgraduat programms
24%
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this
do with th ontnt of th history
to
whih may not dsignd
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to
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thr
history tahrs. “Thr is this ida
of
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Box 9.2: Gender and ethnic diversity in
the British historical profession
RHS rport.
“A New Patriotic Song” from a collection of material
Figure 9.2
relating to the fear of a French invasion (1803) British Library
signifiant qustions for TOK.
traditional approahs to historiography.
Historiography is the study of the methods that
historians use; the writing of history.
that who tahs you mattrs as muh
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