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Entry: Historiography - The Rankian School of Thought - A20980640
Author: Kyra - Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die - U1572880

Just a quick look at empirist history.

Thanks Kyra - Very interesting

I posted a general comment about this and its sister entry on the other's peer review thread:

F48874?thread=3993390 (A21013598 - Historiography - The Annales School of Thought)

Icy

Ta, mate

OK, here are some nitpicks for this one:

"Ranke has been accused of being a historicist" - you should add a footnote explaining that this is someone who believes historical events are beyond human control/influence.

"He produced 54 volumes of history, which he had published in 1871 before going on to write a nine volume universal history in the ten years before his death at the age of 91."
-->
"He produced 54 volumes of history, which he published in 1871 before going on to spend ten years writing a nine volume history before his death at the age of 91."

"Macaulay writes of the history of Britain that 'the history of our time during the last 160 years is eminently the history of physical, of moral and of intellectual improvement'."
--> As you mention the last 160 years, you should give the year he said this: "In ????, Macaulay wrote of the history of Britain that..."

Good work

Changes made, thanks

Nice little entry this Kyra

A couple of missing commas methinks;

such as Thomas Babington Macaulay dominated --> comma after Macaulay

mpirical school of thought later to be --> comma after thought

That's about all I can add

Changes made

I'll repeat what I said on the thread for the other entry: good intro!

And we repeat what we said on the other thread too. Good work!

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Cool, thanks everyone

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Hi Kyra. Good entry. I realise that this is a little late but if you want the subed can always add it:


I think you should mention Ranke's belief in universal history - that is to say that events all followed on from each other. In his writings, he would often go back to the middle ages or earlier to explain the genesis of much later events.