[Georgie1789]

Please can you help me answer my topic title thanx

[MrJohnDClare]

The word you need is 'historiography' - what historians have written about it.

The site you need is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiograph...ench_Revolution - which will tell you al you need to know.

Actually, nowadays, historians ALWAYS start studying a topic by looking at what previous historians have said, and their theories and 'takes' on it.
This was not always so - people used to go back to the sources and write their history 'from new', as it were.
It may interest you to know that the French Revolution was the first historical topic to get the 'historiography' treatment, when a Dutch historian called Pieter Geyl wrote a book, Napoleon For and Against, in 1946. A famous historian called Arnold Toynbee had argued that there was a pattern to history which kept repeating itself. Geyl disagreed with this - he argued that there were no real truths of history, only historians' interpretations - and he wrote his book on Napoleon to show how French historians' histories of Napoleon differed according to their personal opinions, and the state of the times in which they wrote.

[Georgie1789]

MrJohnDClare, on Oct 22 2007, 09:47 AM, said:

The word you need is 'historiography' - what historians have written about it.

The site you need is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiograph...ench_Revolution - which will tell you al you need to know.

Actually, nowadays, historians ALWAYS start studying a topic by looking at what previous historians have said, and their theories and 'takes' on it.
This was not always so - people used to go back to the sources and write their history 'from new', as it were.
It may interest you to know that the French Revolution was the first historical topic to get the 'historiography' treatment, when a Dutch historian called Pieter Geyl wrote a book, Napoleon For and Against, in 1946. A famous historian called Arnold Toynbee had argued that there was a pattern to history which kept repeating itself. Geyl disagreed with this - he argued that there were no real truths of history, only historians' interpretations - and he wrote his book on Napoleon to show how French historians' histories of Napoleon differed according to their personal opinions, and the state of the times in which they wrote.

thanx do you know anything about modern historians? And what there interpretations were on the french revolution?

thanx again

[Georgie1789]

Hi again for my homework i have been asked to make a website abou the different interpretations of the storming of the bastille. i have finished it and was woundering if you could look over it and tell me what you think of it? thanks


here is the website adress:

http://www.DifferentInterpretationsOfTheSt...tille.piczo.com

[MrJohnDClare]

Georgie1789, on Oct 26 2007, 11:29 AM, said:

thanx do you know anything about modern historians? And what there interpretations were on the french revolution?

Just read the wikipedia article - it has a whole section on Revisionism and Modern Historians.

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Hi again for my homework i have been asked to make a website abou the different interpretations of the storming of the bastille. i have finished it and was woundering if you could look over it and tell me what you think of it? thanks
here is the website adress:
http://www.DifferentInterpretationsOfTheSt...tille.piczo.com

REALLY good. Plain points well made, and very relevant for school history.
Well done.
If I HAD to suggest an improvement I would get someone who is a good speller to proof-read your pages for you.

[Georgie1789]

thanks soo much i got my dad to read over it and he checked all my spellings thanxxx