Indian indenture: History and historiography in a nutshell

The Importance and Pathology of History and Historiography in Imam Khomeini`s Thought

This paper, having referred to the importance and profits of history, seeks to survey the pathology of history and historiography in Imam Khomeini`s view in detail. The study has centered on such problems as historian`s impartiality, distorting history, carelessness in writing historical events down, lack of critique and analysis in historiography, lack of attention to common people in compilin...

The Role of History, Historiography and Historian in Nation Building

Some scholars outside historical scholarship view history as a past, that only has relevance when it is needed or ‘past’ that should totally be forgotten. Such people see these academic disciplines as archaic if not completely useless. Others hold it in low esteem. This may not only be seen as misconception of history, as a process and discipline, it has as well affected the unity, progress, pe...

'Stored Program Concept' Considered Harmful: History and Historiography

Historians agree that the stored program concept was formulated in 1945 and that its adoption was the most important single step in the development of modern computing. But the “concept” has never been properly defined, and its complex history has left it overloaded with different meanings. The paper surveys its use and development and attempts to separate it into three distinct aspects, each w...

The Critical Role of Historiography in Writing IS History

The History and Historiography of Information Science: Some Reflections

-The first part of this paper examines some of the difficulties for the historian of information science that arise from the lack of agreement as to what precisely constitutes information science and from its commonly accepted interdisciplinary nature. It examines in this connection Machlup and Mansfield's ideas about a "narrow" information science and information science as a composite of disc...