Practice question · Select all that apply
What four questions does this tradition hand a working historian, of anywhere?
Hints
- The questions concern subject, archive, categories and absence.
- All four apply as well to European histories as to any other.
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- A. Whose categories are supplying the questions?
- B. What archive is it built from, and who made that archive?
- C. Who is the subject of this history?
- D. What is measured as absence rather than described as presence?
Why
All four. And they improve a history of Yorkshire as much as a history of Bengal, which is the strongest argument that this is method rather than politics.
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