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The Rankean Tradition In British Historiography, 1840 to 1950
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THE RANKEAN TRADITION
In British historiography, 1840 to 1950
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LEOPOLD VON RANKE (1795-1886)
German historian
Wrote multiple works
Eurocentric outlook
Founder of the Rankean model of studying history
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"To history has been given the fuction of judging, the past, of instructing men for the profit of future years....It (the present) merely wants to show how, essentially, things happened..."
Writing history p.25
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RANKEAN TENENTS
Reality objectivity
The possibility of interpretation of document evidence
Equally meaning attempt to understand the past on it's own terms
Rejection of distortion of evidence with personal or political influence in mind
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RANKEAN TRADION
A defense against contemporary political or philosophical trends
History should be critical, colorless and a strict presentaion of facts
Empirical
Less of a focus on the individuals
Strong distinction between acquiring historical knowledge and universal truth
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BRITISH SUPPORTS
Herbert Butterfield, William Stubbs
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HERBERT BUTTERFIELD
Scholar at Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1919
Chair of Modern History in 1944
Against the Whig theory history
Fears influence of secularist liberal optimism
And atheistic communism both denied soveriegnity of God
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BUTTERFIELD
Comfirmed that history should be..
Realist and empirical
But emphasized the individual
Saw WWI, cold war, Holocaust, and Hiroshima as unwarranted presumation
And dangerously close to using history to elict the meaning of life
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WILLIAM STUBBS
Regius Professor of Modern History
First to professionally the study of history in University
Saw progression in history
Large supporter of von Ranke
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BRITISH OPPOSITION
John Emerich Edward DelbergAction, Louis Bernstein Namier
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JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DELBERG ACTION
Reserched in church achieves
Found that church scholars comprised the truth in their records
History is meant to protect morality
History must be practically objective
Whig historian
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LOUIS BERNSTEIN NAMIER
Distrust doctrines of progress because he distrusts human nature
Rejected teleogical
Studies individuals
Obsessed with study of parliament
Created Namierization
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