"historiography" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /hɪˌstɔɹiˈɑɡɹəfi/ [Canada] Forms: historiographies [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi Etymology: From historio- + -graphy. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|historio-|-graphy}} historio- + -graphy Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} historiography (countable and uncountable, plural historiographies)
  1. (countable and uncountable) The writing of history; a written history. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Historiography Translations (writing of history): պատմագրություն (patmagrutʻyun) (Armenian), historiografia [feminine] (Catalan), 史料編纂法 (Chinese Mandarin), 史料编纂法 (shǐliào biānzuǎnfǎ) (Chinese Mandarin), 編史 (Chinese Mandarin), 编史 (biānshǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), historieskrivning [common-gender] [writing, journalism, literature, communications, publishing, media] (Danish), historiankirjoitus [writing, journalism, literature, communications, publishing, media] (Finnish), kirjoitettu historia [literary] [history, human-sciences, sciences] (Finnish), historiografía [feminine] (Galician), ისტორიოგრაფია (isṭoriograpia) (Georgian), ιστοριογραφία (istoriografía) [feminine] (Greek), történetírás (Hungarian), тарихнама (tarixnama) (Kazakh), historiografia [feminine] (Polish), историогра́фия (istoriográfija) [feminine] (Russian), historiografía [feminine] (Spanish), historyograpiya (Tagalog), thuật chép sử (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-historiography-en-noun-lnqFXlZw Disambiguation of Historiography: 65 35 Disambiguation of 'writing of history': 89 11
  2. (uncountable) The study of the discipline and practice of history and the writings of past historians. Tags: uncountable Translations (study of the discipline and practice of history): պատմագիտություն (patmagitutʻyun) (Armenian), historiografia [feminine] (Catalan), 歷史學 (Chinese Mandarin), 历史学 (lìshǐxué) (Chinese Mandarin), 史學 (Chinese Mandarin), 史学 (shǐxué) (Chinese Mandarin), historigrafi [common-gender] (Danish), geschiedschrijving [feminine] (Dutch), historiografia (Finnish), historiographie [feminine] (French), historiografía [feminine] (Galician), ისტორიოგრაფია (isṭoriograpia) (Georgian), ιστοριογραφία (istoriografía) [feminine] (Greek), тарихнама (tarixnama) (Kazakh), historiografia [feminine] (Polish), историогра́фия (istoriográfija) [feminine] (Russian), historiografía [feminine] (Spanish), historyograpiya (Tagalog)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: historiographic, historiographical, historiographically, historiographer, historiograph

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          "ref": "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 Historical Studies, Volume 2: Society, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 91:",
          "text": "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.",
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