History · Historiography

Post-modernism rendered traditional historiography vulnerable, yet historical scholars were initially reluctant to engage in theoretical debates with it. Why? A. They felt confident about their own empirical methods and practices. B. They were suspicious of the disciplines (literary criticism and philosophy) from which post-modernism originated. C. Historians were historically keen to establish history as an autonomous empirical discipline. D. Historians have generally been deeply skeptical of macro-philosophies of history. Choose the correct code: