Outline of history
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to history:
History – discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented.
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[edit] Nature of history
History can be described as all of the following:
- Academic discipline – body of knowledge given to - or received by - a disciple (student); a branch or sphere of knowledge, or field of study, that an individual has chosen to specialise in.
- one of the humanities – academic discipline that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences.
- Field of science – widely-recognized category of specialized expertise within science, and typically embodies its own terminology and nomenclature. Such a field will usually be represented by one or more scientific journals, where peer reviewed research is published. There are many sociology-related scientific journals.
- Social science – field of academic scholarship that explores aspects of human society.
[edit] Essence of history
Main article: History
[edit] Branches
- Archaeology – study of past human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data
- Archontology – study of historical offices and important positions in state, international, political, religious and other organizations and societies
- Art history – the study of changes in and social context of art
- Chronology – locating events in time
- Cultural history – the study of culture in the past
- Economic history – the study of economies in the past
- Environmental history – study of natural history and the human relationship with the natural world
- Futurology – study of the future: researches the medium to long-term future of societies and of the physical world
- History painting – the painting of works of art having historical motifs or depicting great events
- Military history – the study of warfare and wars in history
- Natural history – history of the natural world, now usually referred to as science
- Naval history – the branch of military history devoted to warfare at sea or in bodies of water
- Paleography – the study of ancient texts
- Political history – the study of past political events, ideas, movements, and leaders
- Public history – the presentation of history to public audiences and other areas typically outside academia
- Psychohistory – study of the psychological motivations of historical events
- Social history – the study of societies and social trends in the past
[edit] Record of history
[edit] History by chronology
Main articles: List of timelines and List of time periods
- Timeline of the Big Bang
- Formation and evolution of the Solar System
- Geologic time scale
- History of the world
- Universal history
- Pre-Columbian
- Renaissance
- Future history
[edit] Ages of history
prehistory
historic
Other
- Axial Age
- Dark Age
- Viking Age
- Age of Discovery
- Age of Reason
- Age of Enlightenment
- Industrial Age
- Information Age
- Space Age
[edit] Eras of history
Main article: Era
[edit] History by region
Main article: History of the world
[edit] History by continent and country
- Timeline of country and capital changes since 1001 CE
- Timeline of ancient country changes before 1001 CE
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[edit] Economic history by region
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[edit] Military history by region
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[edit] History by field
- Cultural history
- History of art
- History of geography
- History of history
- History of mathematics, timeline
- History of philosophy, timeline
[edit] History of religions
- History of religions (timeline)
- Axial Age
- Evolutionary origin of religions
- Teleological development of religion
- The Bible and history
- History of Ayyavazhi
- History of Buddhism (timeline)
- History of Christianity (timeline)
- History of creationism
- History of Hinduism
- History of Islam (timeline)
- History of Judaism
- History of Taoism
- History of Wicca
[edit] History of science
- History of science
[edit] Social sciences
- History of the social sciences
- Business history
- Historiography
- History of archaeology (timeline)
- History of criminal justice
- History of economic thought
- History of education
- History of linguistics
- History of management
- History of marketing
- History of political science
- History of psychology (timeline)
- History of science and technology
- History of scientific method
- History of sociology (timeline)
- Legal history (history of law)
[edit] Technology
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- History of technology
- Aviation history
- History of agricultural science
- History of agriculture
- History of architecture (timeline)
- History of artificial intelligence
- History of biotechnology
- History of cartography
- History of communication
- History of computer science
- History of electromagnetism
- History of engineering
- History of health science
- History of materials science
- History of measurement
- History of medicine
- History of transport
- Industrial history
- Military history
- Timeline of historic inventions
[edit] Methods and tools
- Prosopography – a methodological tool for the collection of all known information about individuals within a given period
- Historical revisionism – traditionally used in a completely neutral sense to describe the work or ideas of a historian who has revised a previously accepted view of a particular topic
- Historiography – the study of historical methodology
[edit] Concepts
- Annals
- Big History
- Centuries
- Chronicle
- Chronology
- Classics
- Cultural history
- Family history
- Future
- Genealogy
- Historian
- Historical classification
- Historical revisionism
- Historical thinking
- Historiography
- History
- History is written by the victors
- History of science and technology
- Identity
- Intellectual History
- Intellectual history of time
- Landscape history
- List of time periods
- Local history
- Marxist historiography
- Mythology
- Oral history
- Palaeography
- Past
- Periodization
- Philosophy of history
- Prehistory
- Present
- Pseudohistory
- Social history
- Social change
- Virtual history
[edit] Historians
For a more comprehensive list, see List of historians.
- Herodotus –
- Dio Cassius –
- Livy –
- Appian –
- Jean Froissart –
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel –
- Voltaire –
- Edward Gibbon –
- Thomas Macaulay –
- Alexis de Tocqueville –
- Arnold J. Toynbee –
- J. B. Bury –
- Will Durant –
- Samuel Eliot Morison –
- Francis Parkman –
[edit] Lists
Main article: Index of history articles
- Outline of archaeology
- Outline of classical studies
- Outline of medieval history
- Outline of the Renaissance
[edit] References
[edit] Further reading
- Williams, H. S. (1907). The historians' history of the world. (ed., This is Book 1 of 25 Volumes; PDF version is available)
- Wells, H. G. (1921). The outline of history, being a plain history of life and mankind. (ed., This is Book 1 of multi-volume set.)
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