Major Trends In Historical Thought And Writing Set 3
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Q1 | ................... used Carlyle's work as a primary source for the events ofthe French Revolution in his novel ‘A Tale of Two Cities’.
- charles dickens
- robert jaulin
- winston churchill
- edmund burke
Q2 | .............wrote ‘The French Revolution: A History’ (3 volumes, 1837), as ahistorical study concerning oppression of the poor, which was immediately successful.
- carlyle
- isaac asimov
- thomas kuhn
- edmund spenser
Q3 | .............. historian of science, Thomas Kuhn addressed the structuralformations of science in his seminal work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions—its title alone evincing a stringent structuralist approach.
- british
- french
- american
- dutch
Q4 | Blending Marx and structuralism French theorist LouisAlthusser introduced his own brand of structural social analysis, giving rise to "structural Marxism.
- louis althusser
- ferdinand de saussure
- claude lévi-strauss
- thomas kuhn
Q5 | .................... is widely considered the "father" of twentieth-centurylinguistics.
- ferdinand de saussure
- karl marx
- claude lévi-strauss
- thomas kuhn
Q6 | ............... most influential work, the Course of General Linguistics waspublished posthumously in 1916.
- ferdinand de saussure’s
- charles bally
- albert sechehaye
- claude lévi-strauss
Q7 | .................. published Structural Anthropology, a collection of his essayswhich provided both examples and programmatic statements about structuralism.
- claude lévi-strauss
- ferdinand de saussure’s
- charles bally
- albert sechehaye
Q8 | Among ...............many significant publications, The ElementaryStructures of Kinship (1949) and The Savage Mind (1962) exemplify his contributions to anthropology.
- claude lévi-strauss’
- ferdinand de saussure
- lucien febvre
- march bloch
Q9 | .............. is often cited as the founder of structural anthropology.
- lévi-strauss
- ferdinand de saussure
- lucien febvre
- march bloch
Q10 | ....................is best known for his pioneering studies French RuralHistory and Feudal Society and his posthumously-published unfinished meditation on the writing of history, The Historian's Craft.
- marc leopold benjamin bloch
- lévi-strauss
- ferdinand de saussure
- lucien febvre
Q11 | ................published a large work, available in a two-volume Englishtranslation as Feudal Society.
- ferdinand de saussure
- lévi-strauss
- marc leopold benjamin bloch
- lucien febvre
Q12 | ............ has had lasting influence in the field of historiography throughhis unfinished manuscript ‘The Historian's Craft’, which he was working on at his death.
- march bloch
- paul vidal de la blache
- Émile durkheim
- lucien febvre
Q13 | Spanish historiography was influenced by the "Annales School" startingin 1950 with.....................
- jaime vincens vives
- jacques revel
- philippe ariès
- roger chartier
Q14 | ........... was a French historian and a leader of the Annales School.
- fernand braudel
- jules michelet
- stephan thernstrom
- jeremy bentham
Q15 | The history of sexuality was treated in depth by the Frenchphilosopher ................ in his final work, the multi-volume Histoire de la sexualité.
- michel foucault
- jeremy bentham
- e.p. thompson
- g. m. trevelyan. 68.gender history gained prominence after it was conceptualized
Q16 | In Marxist theory, the civil sense of the term Subaltern was first used bythe Italian Communist intellectual ............ , possibly as a synonym for the proletariat.
- antonio gramsci
- homi k. bhabha
- max weber
- thorstein veblen
Q17 | ..............was a founding member and onetime leader of the CommunistParty of Italy and was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini'sFascist regime.
- leon trotsky
- edward saïd
- antonio gramsci
- vladimir ilyich lenin
Q18 | In a notable pre-prison article entitled "The Revolution against DasKapital", .................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.
- joseph stalin
- machiavelli
- benito mussolini
- antonio gramsci
Q19 | ............. most influential work was and remains ‘The Making of theEnglish Working Class’, published in 1963 while he was working at the University of Leeds.
- stuart hall’s
- perry anderson’s
- raymond williams’
- e.p.thompson's
Q20 | In 1978 ....................published The Poverty of Theory which attackedthe structuralist Marxism.
- e. p. thompson
- harold wilson
- karl marx
- otto hintze
Q21 | .................. book is ‘The Poverty of Historicism’.
- karl popper's
- pierre-joseph proudhons
- gustav schmoller’s
- werner sombart’s
Q22 | .................. is a historian of South Asia who was greatly influential inthe Subaltern Studies group, and was the editor of several of the group's early anthologies.
- ranajit guha
- leszek kołakowski
- tony judt
- partha chatterjee
Q23 | ................. Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India iswidely considered to be a classic.
- ranajit guha’s
- sumit sarkar
- partha chatterjee
- roger chartier
Q24 | ....................is an Indian historian and is the author of ‘SwadeshiMovement’.
- michel foucault
- partha chatterjee
- philippe ariès
- sumit sarkar
Q25 | ............... entitled one of his essays "Decline of the Subaltern inSubaltern 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.
- sumit sarkar
- richard j. evans
- harry hendrick
- partha chatterjee