nwatts
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I compiled these (thanks to the help of Ben and Amy, <33 you guys) earlier today for this afternoon's exam. I'm sure they'll be of use to future years, and I thought I'd throw them here as the exam-resources element of this forum is slightly lacking. 
Feel free to add more, as my list is by no means comprehensive, but it covered what I had studied nicely.
K. Jenkins – postmodernist
* The historian’s purpose is to possible impose pattern on history.
* Relativism… is a fact of life.
* History is one of a series of discourses about the world.
H. White – postmodernist
An historical text is in essence nothing more than a literary text…
M. Foucault – postmodernist
Truth is linked… with systems of power which produce and sustain it…
E.H. Carr – relativist
* The facts only speak when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context.
* The history we read is a series of accepted judgements.
G.R. Elton – neo-modernist
* Interpretation… has nothing to do with independent existence….
* History deals with the activities of men, not abstractions.
R. Evans – Annales school
* The principal task of history is to explain and interpret. (In defence of history against pomo).
* Ranke introduced into [philological techniques] to history…
E. Hobsbawn – Marxist
I continue (with qualifications to be found in these papers) to find Marx’s ‘materialist conception of history’ the best guide by far to history,
K. Marx – Marxist
* The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
* History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.
* History is shaped by the “prevailing mode of economic production”.
L. von Ranke – empiricist
* To such high offices this work does not aspire: it wants only to show what actually happened (how it really is) (wie es eigentlich gewesen).
* History has been assigned the office of judging the past, of instructing the present for the benefit of future ages.
* The scrupulous use of primary sources to present and unvarnished picture of the facts.
E. Gibbon – romantic
Wars, and the administration of public affairs are the principle subjects of history.
Thucydides – classical scientific
It will be enough if it is considered useful by those who wish to judge clearly both what has happened and what will come about again in the future, in the same or similar fashion, given the nature of man.
Herodotus – classical literary
Herodotus of Halicarnassus, here displays his inquiry, so that human achievements may not become forgotten in time and great and marvelous deeds…
Feel free to add more, as my list is by no means comprehensive, but it covered what I had studied nicely.K. Jenkins – postmodernist
* The historian’s purpose is to possible impose pattern on history.
* Relativism… is a fact of life.
* History is one of a series of discourses about the world.
H. White – postmodernist
An historical text is in essence nothing more than a literary text…
M. Foucault – postmodernist
Truth is linked… with systems of power which produce and sustain it…
E.H. Carr – relativist
* The facts only speak when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context.
* The history we read is a series of accepted judgements.
G.R. Elton – neo-modernist
* Interpretation… has nothing to do with independent existence….
* History deals with the activities of men, not abstractions.
R. Evans – Annales school
* The principal task of history is to explain and interpret. (In defence of history against pomo).
* Ranke introduced into [philological techniques] to history…
E. Hobsbawn – Marxist
I continue (with qualifications to be found in these papers) to find Marx’s ‘materialist conception of history’ the best guide by far to history,
K. Marx – Marxist
* The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
* History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.
* History is shaped by the “prevailing mode of economic production”.
L. von Ranke – empiricist
* To such high offices this work does not aspire: it wants only to show what actually happened (how it really is) (wie es eigentlich gewesen).
* History has been assigned the office of judging the past, of instructing the present for the benefit of future ages.
* The scrupulous use of primary sources to present and unvarnished picture of the facts.
E. Gibbon – romantic
Wars, and the administration of public affairs are the principle subjects of history.
Thucydides – classical scientific
It will be enough if it is considered useful by those who wish to judge clearly both what has happened and what will come about again in the future, in the same or similar fashion, given the nature of man.
Herodotus – classical literary
Herodotus of Halicarnassus, here displays his inquiry, so that human achievements may not become forgotten in time and great and marvelous deeds…
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