[HIST 80B] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (44 pages long)
29 Mar 2017
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Rise and fall of philosophical and social systems. History is based on verifiable data and the authorial interpretation of the data. The result of data and interpretation is the narrative. History is both a social science and a narrative art. The tale of how writing of history has changed over time. History was not a formal/stable profession until the 19th century. The university of berlin (founded 1810) created the first modern research university departments. One of the university"s founders was leopold von. Ranke who established a need for resource based history that resulted in political history becoming the dominant branch of history. Hegel believed that a competition between thesis and antithesis was constantly in existence and that the result of this dynamic tension would be an evolved and advanced thesis known as synthesis. Karl marx, a historian and economist with a strong philosophical basis for analysis, shifted the historical discourse away from political history towards economic and social history.
