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Matt Esterman

Twentieth Century Atlas - Historical Body Count - 0 views

    • Albigensian Crusade (1208-49)
      • Rummel: 200,000 democides
      • Helen Ellerbe, The Dark Side of Christian History: 1,000,000
      • Max Dimont, Jews, God, and History: 1,000,000 Frenchmen suspected of
        being Albigensians slain
      • Michael Newton, Holy Homicide (1998): 1,000,000
      • Individual incidents:
        • PGtH: 20,000 massacred in Beziers.
        • Ellerbe:
          • Beziers: 20-100,000
          • St. Nazair: 12,000
          • Tolouse: 10,000
          • Newton: 20-100,000 massacred in Beziers.
          • Sumption, Albigensian Crusade (1978): <5,000 k. by Inquisition
            [ca. 1229-1279]
Matt Esterman

Feminist History - 0 views

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    A list of resources relating to feminist history.
Matt Esterman

feminist history - Google Search timeline - 0 views

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    A useful little timeline for feminist history.
Matt Esterman

Herodotus - 0 views

  • His accounts of such cultures are methodical and well researched (though not
    without bias), often taken from the accounts of the natives of those cultures.
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    Check out the link to Herodotus' work! All online!
Matt Esterman

Roberts - Geoffrey Elton and the Philosophy of History - 0 views

shared by Matt Esterman on 12 Mar 09 - Snapshot
  • . Elton presented his writings on the nature and methods of
    history not as philosophy, but as an account of what working historians like
    himself did. To make such an account coherent and convincing it was necessary to
    explicate and defend the fundamental assumptions underpinning the discipline's
    traditional practices. The cumulative result of Elton's efforts was a sustained
    defence of what may be called a human action account of the past: the view that
    history was not the result of social structures, objective forces or (as some
    postmodernists argue) linguistic discourses, but of autonomous human agents and
    that to explain and comprehend the past, historians must provide an account of
    those agents' actions in their own terms, as they were lived and played out at
    the time.
  • 4. Elton's view of the nature of history and its study
    had a very simple starting point: in the past there were people like us,
    reasoning people with thoughts, feelings, ambitions, concerns and problems.
    These people lived and made choices and what they did produced the events,
    effects, creations and results which is history. When people acted in the past,
    exercised their will and made choices they made their futures and created our
    present. History for Elton was explicable, but the varieties, complexities and
    vagaries of human reasoning and thinking in diverse situations made it
    unpredictable.

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      Elton's beliefs about history
  • Everything in history--the events of the past--happens to and through people
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  • All events happen in a context, in particular conditions and circumstances of
    thought and action
Matt Esterman

World History Archives - 0 views

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    Lots of useful information to expand your knowledge of history and historians - try clicking 'World Historiography"
Matt Esterman

History Toolkit - 1 views

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    Useful for your history projects!
Matt Esterman

History and Historiography - 0 views

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    A useful site with a lot of links on various aspects of history and historiography - check it out!
Matt Esterman

What is the purpose of history? - 2 views

In your own words and relating to at least ONE historian, what do you believe the purpose of history to be?

historiography history chronology philosophy

started by Matt Esterman on 02 Mar 09 no follow-up yet
Matt Esterman

History and Historiography - MSN Encarta - 0 views

  • Except for the special circumstance in which historians
    record events they themselves have witnessed, historical facts can only be known
    through intermediary sources.
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      this is useful...
  • mistaken, fragmentary, or nearly unintelligible after
    long periods of cultural or linguistic change. Historians, therefore, have to
    assess their evidence with a critical eye.
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    A very useful overview of what history and histoiography is including a chronological overview of the writing of history from ancient Greece to now. Also includes various non-Western ideas.
Matt Esterman

Conversation with Niall Ferguson, cover page - 0 views

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    Popular history, military history, economic history? What exactly does Niall Ferguson believe he does and what are his ideas about the construction of history?
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