DIFFERENT TYPES OF HISTORY

Military History
and manage themselves as a group rather than
Military history is the study of examining the as individual organisms.
past of the world through the lens of armed
combat. Combat between human groups is
Social History
traceable back to the days of prehistoric society.
Once humans formed into city-states and
Social history is a method of looking at society
nations, combat became an even more
in all its forms throughout history. A society is
important part of global history. International
simply a group of people who come together for
borders have been formed or destroyed as a
some purpose, whether for the creation of
result of military action. In recent memory,
families, for economic gains, for mutual
military history becomes extremely important
protection, because of shared age, location or
for examining the current state of the world. gender and so on. The study of social history is
Global involvement in the two World Wars is
how social groups, small and large, have lived
responsible for much of the current geopolitical
day-to-day lives throughout the past, and how
landscape.
events have shaped that daily life. How the
daily life of a society influences global events is
Political History also important.

This field of study looks at the development of

Religious History
everything from local government to
international relations. It examines the forms of Religious history examines how global religions
government throughout history and their growth
have shaped events in the portions of the world
within a local and international framework.
where they were prevalent. This is a good
Activism, revolution and the evolution of
example of how the various historic disciplines
various governmental processes are studied in
overlap each other. A group of believers could
political history. International relations are also
be considered a society. By the same token, the
important in the discipline. According to G.R.
rule over people is often tied to religion, such as
Elton, a professor of Constitutional History at
when the king or queen of England also became
Cambridge, the root of the field involves
the head of the Anglican church. By the same
looking at how humans organize into groups
token, religion often plays a part in global
conflict. Religious historians look at all these
events from the basis of the events within the
church that inspired them.

References
• OSSREA: The Fundamental Causes of Armed Conflict in Human History: Reinterpretation of Available
Sources; Mohammed Tadesse
• History Today: What is Political History; Kathleen Burk
• The University of Michigan: Social History and Its Critics; Louise A. Tilly
• Washington State University: Reformation: Protestant England; Richard Hooker