Scales

Bibliographic Data

ID20059618
AuthorsDavid Christian (0000-0001-6545-3017, Macquarie University, corresponding author)
Year2005
Pages64-89
Publication date2005-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenuePalgrave Advances in World Histories (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9780230523401_4
OpenAlexW4248501496
ISBN9780230523401
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited24

The issue of scale is extremely important in historical teaching and research, yet historians have not given it the consideration it deserves.2 The issue has certainly not been discussed as much as other familiar topics such as the problem of ‘objectivity’ or ‘how historians use sources’ or whether or not historians can and should make moral judgements.3 Yet no historian interested in world history can ignore the problem of scale, because world history requires us to think about the past on scales that challenge some basic conventions of modern historical scholarship

Cartography · Comparative historical research · Epistemology · Geography · Objectivity (philosophy) · Political science · Scale (ratio) · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Philosophy