Template:Theories of History

Historians
- list / by area of study
History

Types	Primary sources Secondary sources Tertiary sources
Sources	Annals Archives Artifacts Archaeological site Chronicles Codices Deeds Facsimiles Features Hieroglyphs Historical documents Logbooks Manuscripts Illuminated Oral tradition Papyri Religious texts Scrolls War diaries Service records

Fields of study

By scale	Big History World history Human history Local history Microhistory
By source	Archival science / Library and information science (template) Books / Writing systems Chorography Chronology dating Diplomatics Encyclopaedistics Epigraphy Genealogy Heraldry Numismatics (Money) Onomastics Oral history preservation Phaleristics Philology Postage stamps Prosopography Sigillography Toponymy Vexillology
By topic	Anthropology / Paleoanthropology Cultural Ecology / Environment / Geography Economic Business Capitalism Perspectives on capitalism by school of thought Thought Intellectual Geistesgeschichte Linguistics Medieval churches Military Political Constitutional Diplomatic Social Feminism Gender Indigenous Labour LGBT Rural Quantitative Urban Women

Methodology

Approaches,
schools

Concepts

General

Specific

Periodization of modern history	Age of Discovery Age of Enlightenment European Civil War / Second Thirty Years' War Long 18th / 19th century Renaissance Continuity thesis

By country or region

Africa

Egypt
- Pyramid construction techniques
- Black Egypt Thesis [es]
Ethiopia
Morocco
- Greater Morocco
Rwanda
- Double genocide theory
Maafa

Americas

Latin America	Argentina May Revolution / Causes Revisionist [es] Peru Iquicha Royalism Colonial Spanish America Casta
United States	African-American history Nadir of American race relations Neoabolitionism Reconstruction era Consensus history Cyclical theory Frontier thesis Political history Eras Progressive-era historians

Eurasia

Albania
- Dealbanisation
Austria
- Habsburg Myth
Balhae
Belarus
- Litvinism
Bulgaria
Byzantine Empire [de]
- Early [ru]
Croatia
Europe
- Ancient [ru]
- Medieval [ru]
- New Age [ru]
Georgia
- Aryan Kartli
Greek
- Ages of Man
Iran
- 2,500-year celebration
Italy
- Risorgimento
- Southern Question
  - Neo-Bourbonism
Japan
Korea
- Nationalist
- Goguryeo controversies
North Macedonia
Philippines
- Early settlements
Portugal [pt]
- Lusotropicalism
Romania
- Great Union
Serbia
- Kosovo Myth
Sweden
- Götaland theory
Switzerland
Taiwan
Ukraine
- Executed Renaissance
Vietnam
- Nam tiến
- Trưng sisters

France

Poland

Russia

Spain

Black legend / White legend
Hispanism
Carlism in the Francoist era
Convivencia
Inquisition
Limpieza de sangre controversy [es]
Reconquista
- Islamic revolution of Spain [es]
Revisionist
Colonies or Provinces
Spanish decline [es]
Ser de España [es]

Turkey

United
Kingdom

British Empire	Cambridge School Porter–MacKenzie debate Second colonial occupation

Oceania

Colonial Australia

By war, conflict

pre-18th century
conflicts

18th and 19th
century conflicts

Coalition Wars (1792–1815)	French Revolution Pre-revolution [fr] Causes New Russian School [ru] War in the Vendée Napoleonic era Invasion of Russia Waterloo

American Civil War
- Origins
Franco-Prussian War
- Causes
- Paris Commune
Great Game
Indian Rebellion of 1857
- Causes
Paraguayan War
War of 1812
- Origins
War of the Pacific
- Causes
- Myth of English aid [es]

World War I

Causes

Late Ottoman genocides

Causes of the Armenian genocide

Patriotic consent [fr]

Persian famine of 1917–1919

Powder keg of Europe

Schlieffen Plan

Spirit of 1914 / 1917

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk [ru]

Treaty of Versailles	Reparations War guilt question Article 231 Reichstag inquiry

Interwar period

World War II

Eastern Front	Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact Soviet offensive plans Soviets and the Warsaw Uprising Volhynia massacres Winter War Background Spirit
The Holocaust	Auschwitz bombing debate Awareness in Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe Functionalism–intentionalism debate In relation to the Armenian genocide / Nakba Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust Pius Wars "Polish death camp" Responsibility Slovakia Uniqueness
Pacific War	Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki "Battle for Australia" Bengal famine Second Sino-Japanese War Nanjing Massacre
Western Front	Battle of France Guilty Men Résistancialisme Vichy France [fr]

Cold War

Post-Cold War

Russo-Georgian War
- Background
- Responsibility
Syrian revolution
- Causes

By person

Political
leaders

Adolf Hitler
Alexander the Great
Amin al-Husseini
Aurangzeb
Cato the Younger
Che Guevara
Chiang Ching-kuo [zh]
Chiang Kai Shek [zh]
Constantine the Great
Gregory Palamas
Horatio Nelson
Hypatia
Jiang Zemin [zh]
Joseph Stalin [ru]
José de San Martín
Juan Manuel de Rosas
Klemens von Metternich
Leonid Brezhnev
Louis Riel
Mao Zedong [zh]
Muammar Gaddafi
Napoleon
Neville Chamberlain
Pedro II of Brazil
Simon Bolivar
- Cult of personality [es]
- Bolivarianism
Saladin
Sun Yat Tse [zh]
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Jefferson
Ulysses S. Grant
Warren G. Harding
Yuan Shikai [zh]
Zhou Enlai [zh]
Zhuge Liang [zh]

Historical rankings	Australia Canada Modern Germany Netherlands United Kingdom United States

Others

Other topics

Economics	Industrial Revolution Great Recession Great Depression School of Thoughts Historical school of economics English historical school of economics
Religion	Avestan geography Early Christianity Background Historical reliability of the Gospels Primacy of Peter Opposition to Papal supremacy Proto-orthodox Christianity Early Islam Criticism of the Quran Succession to Muhammad Islamic golden age Kharijites Ecclesiastical history of the Catholic Church Second Vatican Council Hermeneutics of Vatican Council II [it] Hesychast controversy Protestant Reformation Proto-Protestantism Criticism of Protestantism Protestant work ethic Jesuit historiography Modern Jewish history Wissenschaft des Judentums Schools of thought Biblical criticism Catholic theology Panbabylonism Urreligion Perennial Religionsgeschichtliche Schule Roman Revisionist school of Islamic studies
Science / Technology	Conflict thesis Merton thesis Protestant Ethic and Capitalism Heroic theory of invention and scientific development Gunpowder and gun transmission Torsion mangonel myth

Organizations, publications
Heritage registers Historical society (list) History institutes History journals template

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