how and why have historians sought to emulate or borrow from natural sciences
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- how and why have some historians sought to emulate or borrow from the natural sciences
- do you agree with the nature of the question - probs not outline this in the intro, and explain how your arg can fit into this
- neither an art nor science - discipline all of its own - isaiah berlin -1
- the nature and focus of history has changed - when and why was this is a thing then? - sign of its times, and why not anymore??
- but perhaps a more recent upturn in scientific methodology for history - interdisciplinary to discover more about past civilisations etc - depends how link it to science e.g. objective and archives, or as a liberating tool etc
- how
- methods: objective - seminars as laboratories, investigating primary evidence
- RANKE - positivist approach - let the facts speak for themselves - xii, not only collecting but also understanding the facts - xlii. historian should be separate from the work they're producing despite spiritual apperception - objective - 9 - permissible to confess ignorance - 16
- in contrast to Saidiya Hartman's critical fabulation - embracing the fictitious
- RANKE - positivist approach - let the facts speak for themselves - xii, not only collecting but also understanding the facts - xlii. historian should be separate from the work they're producing despite spiritual apperception - objective - 9 - permissible to confess ignorance - 16
- scientific imagery - seminars as laboratories, importance of observations - Peter Novick pg 35
- rigid practices - Bonnie G Smith - 1150. Seminars - trying to find real and authentic past - 1157
- methods: objective - seminars as laboratories, investigating primary evidence
- why
- BURY association with literature has made it seem unscientific - 9. emphasises the importance of truth and accuracy - 13. to protect its sanctity as a discipline - "no more than the handmaid of social science" - 17
- association away from literature, and towards the sciences bcos facts of the universe - 19
- "scienticity was the hallmark of the modern and the authoritative" - Peter Novick - 21
- BURY association with literature has made it seem unscientific - 9. emphasises the importance of truth and accuracy - 13. to protect its sanctity as a discipline - "no more than the handmaid of social science" - 17
- WK11 - anthropocene
- defining historical periods through scientific criteria - e.g. demography, climate change, agirculture etc - Paul Crutzen - 23
- Bruno Latour emphasises the importance of understanding networks between human and non-human - Donna Haraway - 42
- interelation between human impact on planet and vice versa - step away from a human centric view - Dipesh Chakrabarty - 203
- "to reconstruct the past from rocks rather than written records" - JR McNeill - pg2 - "We are often told how technology will revolutionize the future. I wonder if it will revolutionize the past" - peak document - the need for scientific methods in order to learn more about the more distant past etc - 3
- - aDNA and Africanisation - learning about cultures with less documentation and archives etc - can help to illuminate undocumented areas of the world - 5. Archaelogists using natural scientific methods e.g. LiDAR - 8
- professionalisation and disciplinisation of history in universities - modelled from Germany
- 19th century historical innovators - seminar truth, rigorous practice - masculine bcos intrinsic to scientific history - Bonnie G Smith - 1150
- "scienticity was the hallmark of the modern and the authoritative" - Peter Novick - 21
- do you agree with the nature of the question - probs not outline this in the intro, and explain how your arg can fit into this
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