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    Volume 1
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    June 2011
    November 2010
    ISBN:
    9780511695087
    9781108022095
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511695087
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.78kg, 618 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Area Studies, British History after 1450, European History: General Interest, History, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - British & Irish History, 17th & 18th Centuries
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, Area Studies, British History after 1450, European History: General Interest, History, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - British & Irish History, 17th & 18th Centuries
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    German historian Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886) is well known for pioneering the modern historical method which advocates empiricism, rather than a focus on the philosophy of history. Emphasising the importance of presenting history exactly as it happened, Ranke asserted that different eras need to be understood in their own contexts rather than in relation to each other: history should not be regarded as one long, teleological narrative. These principles of writing history, established in earlier publications, are all evident here. Originally published in eight volumes between 1859 and 1869, Ranke's history, 'principally in the seventeenth century', was first published in English as a six-volume history by the Clarendon Press in 1875, the mammoth task of its translation distributed among eight Oxford dons. Volume 1 prefigures the events of the seventeenth century: starting with the early Britons, Ranke summarises English history up to the early years of Charles I.

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