Leopold von Ranke
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Leopold von Ranke was a German historian and a founder of modern source-based history. He was able to implement the seminar teaching method in his classroom and focused on archival research and the an
1875 portrait of Ranke by Adolf Jebens
1877 portrait of Ranke
E. H. Carr
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Edward Hallett Carr was a British English historian, diplomat, journalist and international relations theorist, and an opponent of empiricism within historiography. Carr was best known for A History o
Leopold von Ranke
…are now regarded by some as outdated and no longer credible. They held sway among historians until the mid-20th century, when they were challenged by E. H. Carr and Fernand Braudel. Carr opposed Ranke's ideas of empiricism as naive, boring and outmoded, saying that historians did not merely report facts; they…
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In his 1939 book The Twenty Years' Crisis, Carr attacked Norman Angell as a utopian thinker on international relations.
Carr's History of Soviet Russia runs to 14 volumes and has been extended into the 1930s by historian R. W. Davies and others.