Contemporary History And Its Methodology

Contemporary history and its methodology

Introduction

This work of difficult understanding encompasses the methodology and characteristics of the historiographic current in which the author of the book navigates. We classify this work in microhistory, it is a methodology and historiographic response that is carried out through the narrative. It enters a thought of the complex time, at this time giving rise to the birth of the new sociocultural history. As for the method "The new story will have to use all the discoveries that anthropologists, economists, psychologists and sociologists do about humanity, among other disciplines used to be able to make this new story".

Developing

According to Peter Burke we can differentiate the old story of the new one according to the essential object of history, the new story focuses more at the local, any human activity, the objective that everything can be rebuilt and interact with the rest of the past. The new story leaves behind the history of the great events to focus on a story that combines the narration and analysis of different fields related to history, it is very difficult to make history without talking about other disciplines. 

We find the birth of microhistory in the roots of Marxism and oriented towards a leftist ideology, little prone to metaphysics . The elements of common microhistory are very few, but they are fundamental for definition and complete this work, in the same way that the Anal School is not defined as such and has no established limits.

When talking about the Anal School we refer to the third school, from the 60s.

First, the replacement of the traditional narration of events by an analytical story oriented by a problem. Second, it is favored for the realization of a story that includes a whole range of human activities in the place of a primarily political history and that until now many individuals forgotten by history were left. 

In the same way that women until the 60s have not been studying and obviously in the entire history of humanity there have been women. Thirdly, in order to achieve the two objectives already, collaboration with other disciplines, with geography, sociology, psychology, economics, linguistics, social anthropology is required before.

The new story is not only a thematic contribution, but the incorporation of a perspective of analysis related to the symbols, practices of individuals of an era and how they give a true sense to discourse. The fact that a speech is true does not omit the use of logical imagination to fill in the information we lack in some cases. 

Historians use various methods for putting a conditional, so that nothing is ensured or a truth is given at first. The conditionals are always immersed in an exhausted investigation, always leaving doubt. If the information is scarce or directly there is no possibility of having it, it usually delimits the context and complementarity with mentalities similar to the object of study in question. 

Historians have to be at least detail and listen to the voices of the past, to the protagonists of that story, since the historian has not been able to witness with his own eyes. The microhistory, in terms of use, the reduction of the observation scale is practiced, in a microscopic analysis, observed from different angles (a polyhedral observation) and in an intensive study of the documentary material. 

For microhistory, scale reduction is an applicable analytical procedure anywhere regardless of the dimensions of the object in question. Historical analysis can understand the feelings, the complex situation of each individual and the time of interest. The microhistory, in terms of use, the reduction of the observation scale is practiced, in a microscopic analysis, observed from different angles (a polyhedral observation) and in an intensive study of the documentary material. For microhistory, scale reduction is an applicable analytical procedure anywhere regardless of the dimensions of the object in question. 

conclusion

Historical analysis can understand the feelings, the complex situation of each individual and the time of interest. The microhistory, in terms of use, the reduction of the observation scale is practiced, in a microscopic analysis, observed from different angles (a polyhedral observation) and in an intensive study of the documentary material. For microhistory, scale reduction is an applicable analytical procedure anywhere regardless of the dimensions of the object in question. Historical analysis can understand the feelings, the complex situation of each individual and the time of interest. 

Scale reduction is an applicable analytical procedure anywhere regardless of the dimensions of the object in question. Historical analysis can understand the feelings, the complex situation of each individual and the time of interest. Scale reduction is an applicable analytical procedure anywhere regardless of the dimensions of the object in question. Historical analysis can understand the feelings, the complex situation of each individual and the time of interest.