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 == Definition of historiography == 

 I feel a large part of the sense of historiography is ignored in the descriptive parts of the entry. In particular I refer to the way in which historiography can be seen to exist as a semi-independent discipline, in particular as demonstrated in the birth of specifically historiographical journals and with the popularity of historiography modules in most university history courses. To put it another way, this is historiography as a form of intellectual history and distinct from the single-issue historiography that can be equated (as in the article) with historical revisionism. This approach considers not only single-issue historical debates but also how methodological, epistemological and philosophical debates about the ""correct"" approach to history are related to institutional and academic issues, not to mention cultural trends in general. It is also this kind of historiography that develops ideas about specific groups of historians working towards similar intellectual goals - be they Nationalist, Annaliste, Marxist, Subaltern, Postmodern, or whatever. I believe the entry would benefit enormously from a recognition of the alternative conceptions of historiography and a description of the approaches that both suggest."