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Monday, October 15, 2012

ESSAYS-HISTORIOGRAPHY

History Extension

ESSAYS

Contents

Reynolds Henry Why Weren’t We Told?

Hobsbawn, Eric On History

Evanx, Richard J In Defence of History

Becher, Carl J ‘What are Historical Facts?’

Vincent, John An Intelligent Person’s Guide to History

Jenkins, Keith What is History

Bailyn, Bernard Two Encounters

Summers, Anne Damned Whores and God’s Police

Dixson, Miriam The Real Matilda

Windschuttle, Keith The Killing of History

McCullough, Colleen The First Man in Rome

Sharp, Jim and Scott, Joan History from below / Women’s History

Burke, Peter Overture

Clark, Blainey, Crawford Making History

Hexter, J H On Historians

Nye, Russel History, Meaning and Method

Burgess, Antony Foreword

Marx, K The Communist Manifesto

Ward, Russel The Australian Legend

Elton, G R The Practice of History

Commager, Henry The Nature and the Study of History

Tuchman, Barbra The Practice of History

Ortegay Gasset, Jose History as a System

Bullock, Alan The Historian's Purpose

Geyl, Pieter Use and Abuse of History

Bloch, Marc The Historian's Craft

Sellar & Yeatman 1066 and All That

Bury, J B The Science of History

Hegel, Herder, Tolstoy, Vico Readings from Philosophers

Tillinghast, E Approaches to History

Other Ancient and Readings
Medieval Options

Collingwood, R G The Idea of History

Von Ranks, Leopold To history has been assigned …

Venerable Bede My brother…

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JOBS 4 HISTORY STUDENTS

Career options for students who have finished their graduation in history are quite high.Students can appear for the UPSC or the state wide PSC tests.Almost 40 % of I.A.S examination questions are taken from history.Those who like the teaching profession can get the B.Ed (after BA) or M.Ed (after MA) degree and apply for teacher or Assistant Professor positions. Many other job options are available for B A history Student. A few include:Archivists,Information Managers, Librarians, Public Relations officer,Records Managers, Teaching,Law, Research, Diplomacy,Public service,Journalism, Ministry,Insurance, Politics,Publishing,Archaeologist,Archivist,Historical researcher, Museum work,Secondary school teacher,Tour guide,University lecturer etc.

"Gandhi as the ascetic defender of property,the mascot of the bourgoisie and in actual achievement -statistics as the Jonah of Revolution"..By R P Dutt.... “I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles”.by Jacques Derrida."History is the witness of the times, the torch of the truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity."- By Cicero, Roman Oratore "All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon" By Voltaire.“D D Kosambi and R S Sharma,together with Daniel Thorner,brought peasants into the study of indian history for the first time”.Comment of Irfan Habib."I only accept awards from academic institutions or those associated with my professional work,and not state awards".[Romila Thapar on her refusal to accept padma bhshan in 1992.......]"If HUME and other English liberals hoped to use Congress as a SAFETY VALVE ,the Congress leaders hoped to use HUME as a lightening conductor".[Words of BIPIN CHANDRA...]

HISTORICAL FACTS.

1-Facts are importand for the constuction of history.2-Anything which gives us some idea about the past or present or future can be termed as fact.3-it is also called sources.4-sources are two kinds PRIMARY AND SECONDARY.5-Primary or Direct sources are anything which gives us information directly.6-Secondary sources or Indirect sources provides information indirectly.7-TERTIARY sources are used to describe a work which is a compilation of primary and secondary sources.It focused on the identification of scholarly work than on content. For example :bibliography,library catalog,directories etc.8-That is why RANKE said”NO SOURCES,NO HISTORY”.9-To Ranke “all kinds of sources should be subjected to criticism.10-HEURISTICS means searching of facts or sources.11-HERMENEUTICS aims to find out the authenticity or veracity of the sources.12-DEDUCTIVE METHOD is a type of reasoning from general to particular.13-INDUCTIVE METHOD is a reasoning from particular to general.

HISTORIAN OF THIS MONTH

K.P.PADMANABHA MENON Born in October 1857. Father: Diwan Peshkar Sankunny Menon. Mother: Parvathy Amma. K.P. Padmanabha Menon was the son of Diwan Peshkar Sankunni Menon who for the first time attempted to write the history of Travancore. Through his work Kerala Charithram (History of Kerala), Padmanabha Menon surpassed the talents of his father. Padmanabha Menon was an eminent Advocate, Judge and Historian. He also wrote Kochi Rajya Charithram (History of Cochin). He was also the Advocate General of Madras Government and member of Marumakkathayam Committee. He died on 1 May 1919.

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ESSAYS-HISTORIOGRAPHY

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