Deck 3: Notable Figures and Works in History and Historiography

Question 1

................... used Carlyle's work as a primary source for the events of the French Revolution in his novel 'A Tale of Two Cities'.

A)charles dickens
B)robert jaulin
C)winston churchill
D)edmund burke

Answer 1

charles dickens

Question 2

.............wrote 'The French Revolution: A History' (3 volumes, 1837), as a historical study concerning oppression of the poor, which was immediately successful.

A)carlyle
B)isaac asimov
C)thomas kuhn
D)edmund spenser

Answer 2

carlyle

Question 3

.............. historian of science, Thomas Kuhn addressed the structural formations of science in his seminal work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions-its title alone evincing a stringent structuralist approach.

A)british
B)french
C)american
D)dutch

Answer 3

american

Question 4

Blending Marx and structuralism French theorist Louis Althusser introduced his own brand of structural social analysis, giving rise to "structural Marxism."

A)louis althusser
B)ferdinand de saussure
C)claude lévi-strauss
D)thomas kuhn

Question 5

.................... is widely considered the "father" of twentieth-century linguistics.

A)ferdinand de saussure
B)karl marx
C)claude lévi-strauss
D)thomas kuhn

Question 6

............... most influential work, the Course of General Linguistics was published posthumously in 1916.

A)ferdinand de saussure's
B)charles bally
C)albert sechehaye
D)claude lévi-strauss

Question 7

.................. published Structural Anthropology, a collection of his essays which provided both examples and programmatic statements about structuralism.

A)claude lévi-strauss
B)ferdinand de saussure's
C)charles bally
D)albert sechehaye

Question 8

Among ...............many significant publications, The Elementary Structures of Kinship (1949) and The Savage Mind (1962) exemplify his contributions to anthropology.

A)claude lévi-strauss'
B)ferdinand de saussure
C)lucien febvre
D)march bloch

Question 9

.............. is often cited as the founder of structural anthropology.

A)lévi-strauss
B)ferdinand de saussure
C)lucien febvre
D)march bloch

Question 10

....................is best known for his pioneering studies French Rural History and Feudal Society and his posthumously-published unfinished meditation on the writing of history, The Historian's Craft.

A)marc leopold benjamin bloch
B)lévi-strauss
C)ferdinand de saussure
D)lucien febvre

Question 11

................published a large work, available in a two-volume English translation as Feudal Society.

A)ferdinand de saussure
B)lévi-strauss
C)marc leopold benjamin bloch
D)lucien febvre

Question 12

............ has had lasting influence in the field of historiography through his unfinished manuscript 'The Historian's Craft', which he was working on at his death.

A)march bloch
B)paul vidal de la blache
C)Émile durkheim
D)lucien febvre

Question 13

Spanish historiography was influenced by the "Annales School" starting in 1950 with.....................

A)jaime vincens vives
B)jacques revel
C)philippe ariès
D)roger chartier

Question 14

........... was a French historian and a leader of the Annales School.

A)fernand braudel
B)jules michelet
C)stephan thernstrom
D)jeremy bentham

Question 15

In Marxist theory, the civil sense of the term Subaltern was first used by the Italian Communist intellectual ............ , possibly as a synonym for the proletariat.

A)antonio gramsci
B)homi k. bhabha
C)max weber
D)thorstein veblen

Question 16

..............was a founding member and onetime leader of the Communist Party of Italy and was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini'sFascist regime.

A)leon trotsky
B)edward saïd
C)antonio gramsci
D)vladimir ilyich lenin

Question 17

In a notable pre-prison article entitled "The Revolution against Das Kapital", .................claimed that the October Revolution in Russia had invalidated the idea that socialist revolution had to await the full development of capitalist forces of production.

A)joseph stalin
B)machiavelli
C)benito mussolini
D)antonio gramsci

Question 18

............. most influential work was and remains 'The Making of the English Working Class', published in 1963 while he was working at the University of Leeds.

A)stuart hall's
B)perry anderson's
C)raymond williams'
D)e.p.thompson's

Question 19

In 1978 ....................published The Poverty of Theory which attacked the structuralist Marxism.

A)e. p. thompson
B)harold wilson
C)karl marx
D)otto hintze

Question 20

.................. book is 'The Poverty of Historicism'.

A)karl popper's
B)pierre-joseph proudhons
C)gustav schmoller's
D)werner sombart's

Question 21

.................. is a historian of South Asia who was greatly influential in the Subaltern Studies group, and was the editor of several of the group's early anthologies.

A)ranajit guha
B)leszek ko?akowski
C)tony judt
D)partha chatterjee

Question 22

................. Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India is widely considered to be a classic.

A)ranajit guha's
B)sumit sarkar
C)partha chatterjee
D)roger chartier

Question 23

....................is an Indian historian and is the author of 'Swadeshi Movement'.

A)michel foucault
B)partha chatterjee
C)philippe ariès
D)sumit sarkar

Question 24

............... entitled one of his essays "Decline of the Subaltern in Subaltern Studies", criticizing the turn to Foucauldian studies of power- knowledge that left behind many of the empiricist and Marxist efforts of the first two volumes of Subaltern Studies.

A)sumit sarkar
B)richard j. evans
C)harry hendrick
D)partha chatterjee