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South Asian historiography

South Asian historiography is not mentioned in this article. When did it start? What characterises it? Acwilson9 (talk) 06:51, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Undue section?

The recently added section Historiographic and Conceptual Problems of North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa seems out of place in this broad overview of historiography; it's much too specific and technical for an article on such a general topic and gives undue weight to a specific aspect of historiography. I don't know if there's a better place for this content. What do others think? Lennart97 (talk) 16:00, 5 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

cliometrics

As a quantitative economic history graduate I can confidently say that cliometrics is not about history anymore. This subdiscipline almost completely engaged to economics. It has a controversial contribution to historiography. Some quantitative ecohist do not even know the language of the society she is writing about. I suggest you to add history of capitalism as the historicized version of economic history. I can also contribute the improvement. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.209.32.73 (talk) 06:07, 19 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Cliometrics is generally not considered a historical field by historians. That's why even most known economic history journals are not cited by them. So I agree with this comment. Is there any objection? 88.230.143.189 (talk) 04:16, 12 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: Content Area Literacy

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 17 January 2023 and 6 May 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Peer reviewers: Calebbeausoleil.

— Assignment last updated by Calebbeausoleil (talk) 18:59, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

History section

The history section is far too long, and gives way too much weight to Europe, the UK, and the US. Might be worth splitting into History of historiography? I've added tags for now. Imo Europe shouldn't be getting much better coverage than China, this all needs to be condensed. Kowal2701 (talk) 20:31, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This article's structure is a bit of a mess, the history section should just be used for pre-contemporary developments (and end by referring to the present day traditions), and then each present day tradition gets its own section Kowal2701 (talk) 20:37, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

For instance, the Africa section under history would be a summary of African historiography#History, and then the present day traditions get their own section Kowal2701 (talk) 20:41, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]