Daniel Woolf
I am a Professor of History with specialties in early modern British history, and historiography/history of historical writing. My current research is primarily in the latter area, and includes A Global History of History (published 2011 by Cambridge University Press and translated into Turkish and Portuguese), an abridged and revised version of the latter book published in 2019 as A Concise History of History, and a multivolume edited collection on the subject from Oxford University Press, The Oxford History of Historical Writing (2011-12). I also occasionally publish on historical theory/philosophy of history, and on the history of women's engagement with historical writing. My most recent book (coedited with Marnie Hughes-Warrington) is History from Loss: A Global Introduction to Histories written from Defeat, Exile, Imprisonment, and Colonization (Routledge 2023).
Supervisors: External Examiner: Quentin Skinner, my doctoral supervisor at Oxford (1980-83) was the late G.E. Aylmer, and Internal Examiner: Sir Keith Thomas
Address: Department of History
Watson Hall, 49 Bader Lane
Queen's University, Kingston, ON
Canada K7L 2H1
Supervisors: External Examiner: Quentin Skinner, my doctoral supervisor at Oxford (1980-83) was the late G.E. Aylmer, and Internal Examiner: Sir Keith Thomas
Address: Department of History
Watson Hall, 49 Bader Lane
Queen's University, Kingston, ON
Canada K7L 2H1
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Normativity" has for over a century been a central concept in ethics, medicine and the social sciences. It has not been fully explored as an element in historiography or in historical thought. The essay contends that normativity (as a meta-concept underpinning notions of the "normal" and "normalcy") can help us understand changing attitudes to the a) possibility and b) actuality of historical phenomena, as well as c) their moral exemplarity, but only if we disaggregate three different modes or "registers" of normativity, respectively ethical, metaphysical, and
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