27 septembre 2017
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Chad Gaffield, « 20 – Evidence of What? », Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press, ID : 10670/1.u43uea
Surprisingly and in repeatedly unexpected ways, historians have continued to debate in recent decades the central question of their craft: how can the past be described and explained? At each stage of the debate, the answers to this question have reflected and contributed to larger epistemological discussions across the disciplines. The following discussion examines selected aspects of the twists and turns of recent historical debate by using the example of research on census enumerations. Fr...