HISTORIOGRAP

HY:
The study of
the writing of
history and of
written
histories.
(Oxford Dictionaries, 2015)
THE CHALLENGE
AND RESPONSE
THEORY SURVIVAL = RESPONSE >
Arnold Joseph CHALLENGE
Toynbee
Challenge is an
unpredictable factor or
event that posed a threat
to the ways in which a
group of people made their
A Study of History, 12 volumes livelihood in the past
(Schmandt and Ward, n.d.).
Response is the action
taken by the same group
of people to cope with the
new situation (Schmandt
and Ward, n.d.).
EXCHANGE
THEORY
Alvin Scaf
Societies thrived
through exchange of
goods & services.
History is driven by
economic forces.
Alliances are rooted in
this idea.
Barter - earliest form
of trading and is
universal in nature.
ZEITGEIST
Georg Wilhelm Zeitgeist (Spirit of the Age)
Friedrich Hegel Zeit = time + Geist =
spirit
The defining spirit or
mood of a particular
period of history as shown
by the ideas and beliefs of
the time (Oxford
Dictionaries, 2015).
History is the collective
and universal ideals of
man reflected in his
actions.
WHIG
INTERPRETATIO The world will get better
N OF HISTORY and better.
Herbert
Butterfield Emphasize the rise of
constitutional government,
personal freedoms and
scientific progress as
evidenced by British
Constitutional Monarchy as
the highest model.
Criticized presently for
erroneous claims,
especially after World War
1.
Thomas Babington
Macaulay
THEORY OF
SCIENTIFIC SOCIAL
EVOLUTION History as the social
Karl Marx
struggle for
dominance.
The dominant social
class determines
economic, political
and intellectual
events.
Ruling class VS
oppressed masses.
Communism as the
way to achieve
STRUCTURALIS
M
Fernand The total history (long
Braudel duree) approach
Critical factors in history:
Geography
Social structure
INFLUENTIAL in the 1960s &
1970s
Rooted in the French Annales
Economic structure
School
Study on Philip IIs biography
Political structure
Space, climate and
technology and their
effects on the actions of
human beings in the
past.
CLASS Late is LATE
RULES
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Atmosphere of RESPECT
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GRADING
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No written homework
PRESENTATION 25%
Reading assignments
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100
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