HIST 211 — Historiography
History · University of Ghana
The course seeks to define history: it shows the basic concerns and justification in studying History. It looks at the development of History including the Pre-Greek situation; historical thinking in a world of determinist political and social philosophies; history in Egypt and the ancient Middle East; the Greek foundations of Western historical methodology, Herodotus and Thucydides and the Western Historical tradition; Tacitus and the classical tradition; Eusebius and the alternative tradition, the Medieval chronicle and the decay of the classical tradition of historical writing. The course also looks at the Renaissance and Historical Enquiry; restoration of classical canons of historical writing; source material; flexibility and accommodation in approach to historical sources; beginning of big collections; the ―Erudits‖; precision, concrete detail and informed criticism as elements in historical investigation; new techniques and new skills as aids in historical enquiry and the ―ancillary disciplines‖. Finally, the course looks at the 18th Century watershed: Gibbon and the fusion of the antiquarian and classical traditions of historical work; the 19th Century revolution in historical methodology and the 20th Century developments: Namier and the school of structural analysis.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 200
- Semester
- Semester One
Other courses on this programme
- HIST 212 — Historical Methodology
- HIST 111 — Earliest Civilizations
- HIST 112 — Selected Topics in World History
- HIST 213 — Africa and the Wider World in the 19th Century
- HIST 214 — Africa in the International Setting in the 20th century
- HIST 311 — History of Ghana up to 1800
- HIST 313 — History of Africa up to 1500
- HIST 315 — The Black Diaspora
- HIST 317 — Economic History of West Africa: 1700 to 1890
- HIST 319 — Aspects of Early Modern European History
- HIST 321 — Islam and Christianity in Africa
- HIST 322 — Ghana in the 19th and the 20th Centuries
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 2 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Humanities (2017).