Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these developments in the writing of history, earliest first.
- Marxist social history places class relations at the centre
- Global history challenges the explanatory priority of Europe
- The cultural turn treats language as an object of study
- Ranke-style political history built on state archives
- Bloch and Febvre found the Annales
Hints
- The sequence runs from states, to societies, to classes, to language, to the world.
- Annales 1929; the cultural turn in the 1980s; global history from the 1990s.
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- Ranke-style political history built on state archives
- Bloch and Febvre found the Annales
- Marxist social history places class relations at the centre
- The cultural turn treats language as an object of study
- Global history challenges the explanatory priority of Europe
Why
Each step is partly a reaction to the last. Annales rejected the primacy of diplomacy and event; Marxist history rejected Annales’ relative quiet about conflict; the cultural turn rejected the assumption that social categories are given rather than made; global history rejects all of them for treating Europe as the default case.
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