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While it is clear that around 1800 the humanities as a discipline rose to prominence, it is less clear what the exact nature of this shift in academia was. Was it a sudden revolution caused by a momentary but powerful change in the zeitgeist or the turning point of a much longer process? In this volume, the editors have selected a series of essays that look at the origins of the humanities and find that long before 1800 the concept of the humanities was already at the fore. The shift around 1800 was thus mostly institutional, not theoretical. The Making of the Humanities traces this new finding through a broad range of disciplines including literary theory, linguistics, art history, and musicology.

Humanities -- Comparative method. --- Humanities -- Research. --- Humanities. --- Humanities --- Comparative method. --- Research. --- Learning and scholarship --- Classical education --- Research --- Comparative method

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This book consists of eight comparative studies drawn from history, archeology, economics, economic history, geography, and political science. The studies cover a spectrum of approaches, ranging from a non-quantitative narrative style in the early chapters to quantitative statistical analyses in the later chapters. The studies range from a simple two-way comparison of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which share the island of Hispaniola, to comparisons of 81 Pacific islands and 233 areas of India. The societies discussed are contemporary ones, literate societies of recent centuries, and non-literate past societies. Geographically, they include the United States, Mexico, Brazil, western Europe, tropical Africa, India, Siberia, Australia, New Zealand, and other Pacific islands.

History --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Comparative method --- Methodology

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La réflexion sur l'épistémologie de l'histoire et la théorie littéraire ne sont vraiment légitimes que si l'on prend en compte les textes des historiens anciens dans leur diversité. C'est pourquoi nous proposons d'abord au lecteur de parcourir ce que les Anciens nous disent à propos du genre historiographique et d'examiner sous quelles conditions la théorie littéraire et de l'herméneutique peuvent nous aider. De la promesse (discours programmatique ou polémique) au travail d'écriture, ce recueil, qui résulte d'enseignements consacrés à l'historiographie ancienne, est aussi un livre. Il fallait affronter le risque de la dispersion en commentant des textes très divers et superposer tous ces feuillets en multipliant les références croisées. Un événement (les Ides de Mars), un empire que découvre un Grec (Xénophon et la Perse), une figure éminente (Hannibal) nous ont servi de points d'appui pour dégager les constantes et les variations du discours historiographique des Anciens. Les étudiants de Nanterre et de Nantes, qui nous ont incité à plus de rigueur et nous ont fait lire leurs travaux, méritent ici l'expression de notre gratitude.

History, Ancient --- Historiography. --- Comparative method. --- History [Ancient ] --- Historiography --- Comparative method --- History, Ancient - Historiography. --- History, Ancient - Comparative method. --- Classics --- History --- histoire héllenique --- Antiquité --- historiographie --- méthodologie en sciences humaines --- étude comparative --- théorie littéraire --- littérature

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The first step towards the development of a comparative history of the humanities.

Human sciences (algemeen) --- History of civilization --- anno 1500-1799 --- Europe --- Humanities --- Humanities. --- Comparative method. --- Research. --- Learning and scholarship --- Classical education --- Comparative method --- Research --- History. --- Humanities research

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This book compares things, objects, concepts, and ideas. It is also about the practical acts of doing comparison. Comparison is not something that exists in the world, but a particular kind of activity. Agents of various kinds compare by placing things next to one another, by using software programs and other tools, and by simply looking in certain ways. Comparing like this is an everyday practice. But in the social sciences, comparing often becomes more burdensome, more complex, and more questions are asked of it. How, then, do social scientists compare? What role do funders, their tools, and databases play in social scientific comparisons? Which sorts of objects do they choose to compare and how do they decide which comparisons are meaningful? Doing comparison in the social sciences, it emerges, is a practice weighed down by a history in which comparison was seen as problematic. As it plays out in the present, this history encounters a range of other agents also involved in doing comparison who may challenge the comparisons of social scientists themselves. This book introduces these questions through a varied range of reports, auto-ethnographies, and theoretical interventions that compare and analyse these different and often intersecting comparisons. Its goal is to begin a move away from the critique of comparison and towards a better comparative practice, guided not by abstract principles, but a deeper understanding of the challenges of practising comparison.

Social sciences --- Comparison (Philosophy) --- Methodology --- Comparative method --- Philosophy --- Identity (Philosophical concept) --- Logic