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'No apology can be needed for introducing to English readers the
latest work of Leopold von Ranke', states the editor's preface to
this English translation, first published in 1884. Ranke (1795
1886) is well known for pioneering the modern historical method
which advocates empiricism, rather than a focus on the philosophy
of history. Emphasising the importance of presenting history
exactly as the surviving evidence, both documentary and
archaeological, reveals it to have happened, Ranke asserted that
different eras need to be understood in their own contexts rather
than in relation to each other. Though it is limited to the
Mediterranean and the Middle East, this work takes a broad overview
of 'the oldest historical group of nations and the Greeks',
beginning with ancient Egypt and concluding with Alexander the
Great and his immediate successors. Other works by Ranke in English
translation are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection."
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