Traditional history and new history

 

20/10/2017

 

TRADITIONAL HISTORY AND NEW HISTORY

 

 

Alejandra sent to us an email on Thursday. She explained that we will have a debate in class on Friday about the differences between traditional and new history. We asked her the favour to pospone that acitvity because we wanted to prepare better.

 

María and I read deeply the document to make a table with the differences of traditional and new history. It was easy for us because we had underlined the key words.

 

TRADITIONAL HISTORY	NEW HISTORY
Concerned with politics and this politics are concerned with the state. It included the history of the Church as an institution.	Is concerned with human activity and it is known as cultural construction .
Narrative of events like economic,social and geo-historical changes over the very long term	Analysis of structures which are taken very seriously.
Offers a view from above it means that it was always concentrated in deeds of grat men, statesmen, generals and ocassionally churchmen	Historians are concerned with history from below it means,views of ordinary peopleand with their experience of social change
History should be base on the documents. Prehistory is the period before the invention of writting.	Exposed the limitations of this kind of documents, they are concerned with a greater variety of evidences (visual, oral, statistics)
Traditional philosophy paradigm	Variety of historians questions are often concerned with collective movements as well as individual actions
History is objective	Varied and oppsing voices
New history is associated with lucien febvre, marc bloch and fernand braudel

After that we reviewed the table to make sure that we didn´t forget anything important and we studied it.

That class was very useful to us because we clarified our ideas.