Historiography -- Introduction

Author: (British) Walsh
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Publication Date: 2001-03-01
Features: It should be said that historiography is a science, and an independent science at that. Since historiography is a science, it necessarily shares the universality of science; whatever science possesses in terms of universality, historiography also possesses. At the same time, it is an independent science, and as an independent science, it also has its independence—that is, its specificity, which distinguishes it from other sciences. The author of this book, Walsh, is a renowned contemporary British philosopher. This book summarizes modern Western historiography into two major categories: speculative historiography and analytical historiography. The former studies the laws of historical self-development and evolution, while the latter focuses on the epistemology of historiography. This distinction has now become an important consensus in the field of contemporary Western historiographical theory. The American Historical Review praises this book by saying: "It should be in the library of every scholar who reflects on history or historiography."