history - History and prehistory
(Picture) Stonehenge, United Kingdom
The development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices and events are the subject of history . In the 20th century, the division between history and prehistory became problematic. Criticism arose because of history's implicit exclusion of certain civilizations, such as those of Sub-Saharan Africa and pre-Columbian America. Historians in the West have been criticized for focusing disproportionately on the Western world.Jack Goody (2007) The Theft of History Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521870690

• "Sacred_bundle" - Introduction available online. Reviewed by Daniel Reichman of Cornell University; Eric Alden Smith of the University of Washington; Herbert S. Lewis of the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Hoon Song of the University of Minnesota.
• "lamberg-karlovsky-p5" - However, it is his contemporary Thucydides (ca. 460 BC – ca. 400 BC) who is credited with having begun the scientific approach to history in his work the History of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides, unlike Herodotus and other religious historians, regarded history as being the product of the choices and actions of human beings, and looked at cause and effect, rather than as the result of divine intervention. In his historical method, Thucydides emphasized chronology, a neutral point of view, and that the human world was the result of the actions of human beings. Greek historians also viewed history as cyclical, with events regularly reoccurring.
• Scott Gordon and James Gordon Irving - Scott Gordon and James Gordon Irving, The History and Philosophy of Social Science . Routledge 1991. Page 1. ISBN 0415056829
• Ritter - Ritter, H. (1986). Dictionary of concepts in history. Reference sources for the social sciences and humanities, no. 3. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. Page 416.
• Michael - Michael C. Lemon (1995). The Discipline of History and the History of Thought. Routledge. Page 201. ISBN 0415123461
• According archaeological.org - According archaeological.org, to refer to any period of human history preceding written records.
• Adams - Adams, Henry. (1986). History of the United States of America During the Administration of Thomas Jefferson (pg. 1299). Library of America.
• Adams - Adams, Henry. (1910). A Letter to American Teachers of History.
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