East and West are terms in constant use, pregnant with meaning but hard to define. We speak of individuals or groups as 'Oriental' or Western' in character. We hear of an Asian viewpoint, unaccept- able to the West of a Western colonialism causing resentment in the East. East is East, we remember reading, and never the twain shall meet. 'But they must meet l' say the idealists, and so the deba…
Cultural geography is not a new subject. This generalization holds true whether we define subject" to mean a recognized scholarly discipline or simply a point of view. In the latter sense of the word, cultural geography was well established in antiquity in the former sense, its roots are as deep as those of academic geography as a whole. To verify these points it is sufficient to recall the co…
History does not move at an even speed. There are decades in which it appears to stand still and in which the changes are gradual and, so to speak, underground. But there are other periods, of which the twentieth century is one, when, to quote a phrase used in the 1920s, History is galloping like a frightened horse." Historians and, perhaps more important, statesmen as different as Bismarck, Le…
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HISTORY," said Charles Seignobos, "is not a science it is a method (procédé de connaissance) By that he meant that historical method may be applied to the subject matter of any discipline as a means of extracting fact. That is true, but it is no less true that historical method has a special significance for the historian. The historian (or other scholar acting in loco historici) applies the…
However selective the aims of individual historians may be, their collective aim is to climb to an increasingly comprehensive view of the past. This anthology is designed to show by what feats of imagina- tion and technique the hairpin turns in the road of historical writing have been engineered. The men represented here all possess certain qualities in common: literary ability, intellectual po…