Historiography: An Introductory Guide,

“What is historiography?” asked the American historian Carl Becker in 1938. Readers may well ask that question since professional historians have themselves differed over the meaning of the term, defining it variously to mean the writing of history, the study of historical methodology, the analysis of the different schools of interpretation on a particular historical topic, or the history of historical writing. It is not surprising that many readers are either unfamiliar with the concept of historiography altogether, or at best view it as a dry and esoteric subject, of interest only to specialists, when even historians have often treated historiography in this way. The English historian G. R