From Ranke to Toynbee: five lectures on historians and historiographical problems

Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication1952
AuthorsPieter Geyl
PublisherSmith College, Dept. of History
CityNorthampton, Mass.
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Abstract

Ranke in the light of the catastrophe -- Macaulay in his essays -- The national state and the writers of Netherlands history -- The French historians and Talleyrand -- Toynbee once more: empiricism or apriorism?