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What Is History? (Von Ranke (Rigorous analysis of primary source evidence…
What Is History?
Von Ranke
Rigorous analysis of primary source evidence in constructing any account of the past with emphasis on narrative and international politics
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Article Great Power and Dialogue on Politics --> every state is given a moral character from God and individuals should strike the best to fulfill the idea of their tate
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Encouraged that historians approach primary material in an objective manner by remaining impartial, to refrain from distorting the evidence to coincide with his person view "conferred by the interpreter rather than imposed by the evidence"
Influenced by the Age of Reason in the 19th century Enlightenment as he saw political and scientific approaches as a key factors in the story of the past to be free of bias
Pro monarch as well as a German Nationalist which then reverberated through his documentation of history.
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E.H. Carr
Relativist history with a definition of "historical fact" - a piece of inflation accepted after being subject to historical scrutiny
Evidence is determined by the historian, when it becomes a "question of interpretation" which enters into "every fact of history"
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"To study the history, study the historian"
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Keith Jenkins
History is fiction - a sort of communal delusion, kept alive by the constant process of textual construction
History must acknowledge forces and pressuress in which it is written and thus denying claims to certainty and shortcomings of methods is not ideal
"There is no history, only historiography"
Hayden White
History are like literary texts - historians take disjointed facts out of the archives and transform them into history through the process of employment