It is highly thought that history has always ben a series of static, unchangeable events in time which are largely political and military based. Brundage explains that history is actually ever changing depending on the various views that historians chose to analyze. Malthus and Marx opened the door to new ways of thinking of the past, to not just explore political and military history, but to also explore society itself.
With this drive to examine society and it's people, two schools of thought emerged, the Annales School and Cliometrics. Established in 1929 in France, the Annales School's ideology is to look at societies ways of life over time as opposed to traditional events. Cliometrics ideology includes looking for historical patterns in society over time, particularly economic history.
How has the study of history changed over time?
As History students, how do these varying approaches to history effect our work?
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