Making history, between the creation of a discipline in the nineteenth century and the postwar debates

27 Setembro 2021, 18:00 • Ana Duarte Rodrigues

Leopold von Ranke (m. 1886), and history as a discipline (scientific?)

• Max Weber (d. 1920) and the roots of the intersection of history with the social sciences

• The Annales School and its central figures: Febvre, Bloch, Braudel

• Social history vs. (bad) political history; comparative history vs. national history; historical demography, quantitative history and serial history

• Marxism, structuralism and history

• The “new history” and the main paths of the discipline in the 1980s

• The Portuguese landscape, from Alexandre Herculano (d. 1877) to Magalhães Godinho (d. 2011)

• Presentation of the text by a student and discussion among the group.

Mandatory reading: Dale Tomich, “The Order of Historical Time: The Longue Durée and Micro-History,” Almanack, 2 (2011), pp. 52-65.