I see that I have not expressed the question well, by discipline I meant. If
you write 'local historian' you can remove 'local' and replace it with
numerous combinations. Such as Marxist, classic regional, traditional,
political, annuls, community, black, Victorian and many more all these are
under the subject history.
Frank
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From: "Chris Salter" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: How many types of historians are there?
> The situation is similar in Earth Sciences, Material Science and
> Archaeology with each having a large number of separate sub-disciplines
> which are areas of study in their own right. Often the sciences overlap
> as a material scientists we use techniques borrowed from other sciences
> and improve them for our own use, or to feed back into the original
> discipline. As a material scientist I am currently working on projects
> which involve collaboration with geologists, archaeologists, physicists,
> chemists, biologists, surface scientists, and astrophysicists but
> unfortunately not historians.
>
> Gerard McSweeney wrote:
>
>> Not sure what the object is but what about the sciences, especially, say,
>> chemistry or physics the facets of which are too numerous for an e-mail.
>> G P McSweeney
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Frank Lorford" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 11:58 AM
>> Subject: How many types of historians are there?
>>
>>
>>
>>>Is there any other taught subject besides history with so many
>>
>> disciplines.
>>
>>>Regards Frank
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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> &
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