Historiography Quote by Paul Cartledge

“History does nothing, it possesses no immense wealth, it wages no battles. It is man, real, living man who does all that, who possesses…

— Friedrich Engels

History--the product, not the raw material--is a bottle with a label. For many years now, the emphasis of historical discussion has been laid upon…

— Neal Ascherson

“Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

The older I get the more I'm convinced that it's the purpose of politicians and journalists to say the world is very simple, whereas…

— David Cannadine

I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw on alternatives…

— Michel Onfray

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

— C. V. Wedgwood

If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the…

— J. H. Hexter

“Historical periodization always tells a story. It is a narrative device for putting meaning into the flux of historical process - creating protagonists, heroes,…

— James Ferguson

“If nature abhors a vacuum, historiography loves a void because it can be filled with any number of plausible accounts; Howe, Nicholas, Anglo-Saxon England…

— Deanne Williams

“The hardest task for the historian… is to consider the evidence without prejudice. We all have prior agendas and tend to find what we’re…

— Christopher Evans

“Good historians...have the future in their bones”

— Edward Hallett Carr

“Resources, waterways, and climatic zones loom so large in their writings that one can almost forget that people have something to do with the…

— William Cronon