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Methodology of History
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Methodology of History
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1. An ………………..is a set of two or more propositions related to each other in such a way that all but one of them (the premises) is supposed to provide support for the remaining one (the conclusion).
2. The word …………….. comes from the Latin word for kidnapping.
3. Who is the author of ‘The Structure of Social Action’?
4. Troeltsch used …………….. to mean a tendency to view all knowledge and all forms of experience in the context of historical change.
5. ……………may refer to a range of perceptions and attitudes evinced by the western scholarship towards the Indian civilisation in the 18th and early 19th centuries and since then to a wider intellectual exercise at global level to study and interpret the East in relation to the West.
6. A person who works in archives is called an ………………
7. Theory of evolution was developed by …………
8. The concept of Universal History was initiated by the Medieval Arab Historians …………………
9. History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Who said?"
10. ………..is a field of study that aims to systematize archaeological measurement.
11. In the card system, the upper central portion of a card is used to write....
12. ………………., if used quite logically and unbiased, could be helpful to illuminate the dark aspects of historical reconstruction.
13. The Annales School is a highly influential style of historiography developed by …………..historians in the twentieth century.
14. Who was the author of ‘Why History’?
15. What experience and history teach is this-that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
16. A ……………. paper is a type of academic writing that requires more theoretical understanding.
17. The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use – these two factors being, of course, determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch. By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants”.who said
18. In 1859, …………..'s On the Origin of Species was published.
19. Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
20. ………………is otherwise known as ‘argument from silence’.
21. National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) was passed in …………
22. A ………….. is an invalid argument that appears valid or a valid argument with distinguished assumptions.
23. ……………..defined history as the presentation, in chronological order of successive developments in the means and relations of production.
24. Who was the author of the book ‘The Tudor Revolution in Government?’
25. Whowrote the book ‘A contribution to the Critique of Political Economy’?