Two Varieties of Historical Writing

People who study the past and write on it are a motley crew. The crew is so variegated that there is even some question whether all its members deserve the name of historian. In this paper it is not my aim to examine credentials, nor to be precise, but rather to look at these students of the past, whether surrounded by fame or respectable obscurity, and first to isolate from among them two types categories not exhaustive, mutually exclusive, or clearly delineated, but still discernible. Second, I shall dwell on the ancestry, virtues and shortcomings, and the mutual relationship of the two. Finally, it will be my contention that these two categories are determined not only by the predilections or conditioning of their respective representatives, but also by the subject matter with which they deal

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• Whether, Whither, and How? A Consideration of the Role of Advanced Courses in Asian History at the Undergraduate Level

  Richard H Minear•The Journal of Asian Studies•1978

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