1998/03/01 by Elizabeth A. Clark · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Historical Gender and Feminism Studies #Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes #Historical Education Studies Worldwide
paper · doi:10.2307/3170769
History, Hayden White remarks, has no distinctively historical method, but borrows its models and methods from a variety of other disciplines. These disciplines, however, have varied over time. Latenineteenth-century German historiography looked to the rigorous procedures of the natural sciences to reconstruct the past “as it actually happened“; mid-twentieth-century historians turned to the social sciences, especially to anthropology and sociology, for their models and methods. More recently, historians' appropriation of (and experimentation with) concepts derived from literary and critical theory has occasioned much heated discussion within the field.