historiography

Noun

historiography (countable and uncountable, plural historiographies)

1. The writing of history; a written history.
   • As was mentioned on p.31, value-judgments are generally considered the most conspicuous source of subjectivity in historiography.1991, Els Elffers-van Ketel, The Historiography of Grammatical Concepts, Rodopi, page 51
   • We limited the discussion to historiographies examining the development of the modern Middle East from World War I onward.2006, “Introduction”, in Israel Gershoni, Amy Singer, Y. Hakan Erdem, editors, Middle East Historiographies: Narrating the Twentieth Century, University of Washington Press, page 7
2. (uncountable) The study of the discipline and practice of history and the writings of past historians.
   • In its broadest sense, historiography has to do with the process of historical writing, the identification and use of source material, and the techniques and methods applied to the analysis of these data.1999, B. W. Higman, “1: The Development of Historical Disciplines in the Caribbean”, in B. W. Higman, editor, General History of the Caribbean, Volume 4: Methodology and Historiography of the...
   • Consistently the most underestimated and neglected debate in recent British historiography is that between Perry Anderson and Edward Thompson conducted in the mid-1960s in the pages of the New Left Review and the Socialist Register.2006, Keith Nield, “22: A Symptomatic Dispute?: Notes on the relations between Marxian theory and historical practice in Britain”, in Robert M. Burns, editor, Historiography: Critical Concepts in...