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  2. Diplomatic history - Wikipedia

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    Ranke saw diplomatic history as the most important kind of history to write because of his idea of the "Primacy of Foreign Affairs" (Primat der Aussenpolitik), arguing that the concerns of international relations drive the internal development of the state. Ranke's understanding of diplomatic history relied on using as sources the large number ...

  3. Leopold von Ranke - Wikipedia

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    Leopold von Ranke [a] (21 December 1795 – 23 May 1886) was a German historian and a founder of modern source-based history. [3] [4] He was able to implement the seminar teaching method in his classroom and focused on archival research and the analysis of historical documents.

  4. Historiography - Wikipedia

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    Beginning with his first book in 1824, the History of the Latin and Teutonic Peoples from 1494 to 1514, Ranke used an unusually wide variety of sources for a historian of the age, including "memoirs, diaries, personal and formal missives, government documents, diplomatic dispatches and first-hand accounts of eye-witnesses".

  5. How has history's ranking of presidents changed over time? - AOL

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    But before the career-ending scandal took over headlines, Nixon oversaw the last days of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and ended the military draft, as well as opened up diplomatic relations ...

  6. Ranke Library - Wikipedia

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    Leopold von Ranke (21 December 1795 – 23 May 1886) was a German historian and a founder of modern source-based history. [4] [5] According to Caroline Hoefferle, "Ranke was probably the most important historian to shape [the] historical profession as it emerged in Europe and the United States in the late 19th century."

  7. Timeline of the United States diplomatic history - Wikipedia

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    The diplomatic history of the United States oscillated among three positions: isolation from diplomatic entanglements of other (typically European) nations (but with economic connections to the world); alliances with European and other military partners; and unilateralism, or operating on its own sovereign policy decisions. The US always was ...

  8. List of historians - Wikipedia

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    Elton, G. R. Modern Historians on British History 1485–1945: A Critical Bibliography 1945–1969 (1969), annotated guide to 1000 history books on every major topic, plus book reviews and major scholarly articles. online; Gilderhus, Mark T. History and Historians: A Historiographical Introduction, 2002, ISBN 0-13-044824-9

  9. Renee Zellweger reprises her British singleton for "Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy." Here's how it ranks among the rest of the "Bridget" movies.