Practice question · Select all that apply
What did Ranke contribute to the professionalization of history?
Hints
- The contributions were archival, critical and pedagogical.
- Quantitative social measurement belongs to a much later school.
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- B. Systematic source criticism: authenticity, authorship, date, dependency
- C. Insistence on primary archival sources over recycled chronicles
- D. The research seminar as the training mechanism for historians
Why
Archives, criticism, and the seminar, every history PhD alive is procedurally his descendant. Quantitative social measurement is an Annales-era and later contribution.
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