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History : Politics or Culture? Reflections on Ranke and Burckhardt /

Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886), generally recognized as the founder of the school of modern critical historical scholarship, and Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897), the great Swiss proponent of cultural interpretation, are fathers of modern history--giants of their time who continue to exert an immense inf...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gilbert, Felix, 1905-1991 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1990]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • CHAPTER I. The Impact of the French Revolution and of the Napoleonic Age on Historical Thought
  • CHAPTER II. Ranke's View of the Task of Historical Scholarship
  • CHAPTER III. Ranke and the Meaning of History
  • CHAPTER IV. Burckhardt's Concept of Cultural History
  • CHAPTER V. Burckhardt and the Cultural History of His Time
  • CHAPTER VI. Ranke and Burckhardt: The Common Bond
  • INDEX.