AIH240 Lecture and Seminar Notes

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All topics covered in these notes, information gleaned from lectures and seminars attended during Semester Two, 2021 All areas covered in great detail, pretty much all information from the unit is included in these notes. All writing is my own, rewritten following lectures and seminars to allow for a fuller understanding! Topics covered: Everything has a History: What does a historian do? Is history a science? Perspectives History in the Ancient World: Herodotus and Thucydides History as a Science - Ranke, Empiricism The History of the Printing Press and Mass Media Marxism - History as a Revolutionary path Social History and Quantitative History The Feminist Challenge The Death of Truth - post-modernism Oral history Archives - public and Private Contemporary history