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History: Politics or Culture Reflections on Ranke and Burckhardt
By (Author) Felix Gilbert
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Cultural studies
Political science and theory
901
Paperback
120
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
170g
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 influence in our own. They are usually seen as contra