Rees, Amanda orcid.org/0000-0001-9149-1201 (2019) Doing Deep Big History:Race, landscape and the civilisation of H J Fleure (1877-1969). History of the human sciences. pp. 99-120. ISSN 0952-6951
Abstract
This paper argues that current programmes in the human sciences which adopt a multi-disciplinary approach to history need to be wary of treating the knowledge of the natural sciences as itself independent of social influence. Such efforts to do ‘Big History, ‘Deep History’ or co/evolutionary history themselves have a past, and this paper suggests that potential practitioners could benefit from considering that historical context. To that end, it explores the career of Herbert John Fleure, a scholar whose career defied disciplinary classification, but who was concerned to understand how the human past and present could be understood as they combined in the physical and social context of their production, and what they implied for the possibility of a human future. It concludes by arguing that Fleure’s major lesson for modern researchers is his confrontation of the contingent nature and political consequences of his conclusions.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2019. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Sociology (York) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number THE BRITISH ACADEMY UNSPECIFIED |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 02 May 2018 09:20 |
Last Modified: | 19 Mar 2025 00:08 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695118807116 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0952695118807116 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:130364 |
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