The History of Servia and the Servian Revolution : With a Sketch of the Insurrection in Bosnia and The Slave Provinces of Turkey

Leopold von Ranke

ISBN 10: 1646791673 / ISBN 13: 9781646791675

Editore: Cosimo Apr 2020, 2020

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Neuware - '?.von 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?' -Caroline Hoefferle in The Essential Historiography Reader, 2010The History of Servia and the Servian Revolution-With a Sketch of the Insurrection in Bosnia by German historian Leopold von Ranke was first published in German in 1829. To this English edition of 1853 is added The Slave Provinces of Turkey by the French author Cyprien Robert.This work was based on eye-witness accounts of the Serbian uprising (present-day Serbia was known as Servia prior to 1915) of 1804 against the Ottomans and was one of the first modern works on this Balkan nation. In addition, the earlier chapters are dedicated to the early rich history of the Serbs from the ninth century on to the sixteenth-century Ottoman conquest and their subsequent rule.

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• Titolo: The History of Servia and the Servian Revolution : With a Sketch of the Insurrection in Bosnia and The Slave Provinces of Turkey
• Editore: Cosimo Apr 2020
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1646791673
• ISBN 13: 9781646791675
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 222 L x 145 A x 35 P (millimetri) 222 millimetri di larghezza per 145 millimetri di altezza per 35 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 898 grammi

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“….von 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…” —Caroline Hoefferle in The Essential Historiography Reader, 2010

The History of Servia and the Servian Revolution—With a Sketch of the Insurrection in Bosnia by German historian Leopold von Ranke was first published in German in 1829. To this English edition of 1853 is added The Slave Provinces of Turkey by the French author Cyprien Robert.

This work was based on eye-witness accounts of the Serbian uprising (present-day Serbia was known as Servia prior to 1915) of 1804 against the Ottomans and was one of the first modern works on this Balkan nation. In addition, the earlier chapters are dedicated to the early rich history of the Serbs from the ninth century on to the sixteenth-century Ottoman conquest and their subsequent rule.

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LEOPOLD VON RANKE (1795-1886) was a leading German historian of the 19th century and a founder of modern source-based history, introducing ideas such as reliance on primary sources, with a focus on narrative history and foreign policy. He was professor of History at the University of Berlin from 1834 to 1871. Von Ranke wrote many influential books, including The Ottoman and the Spanish Empires, in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1830) and History of the Popes: Their Church and State (1834-36)-also available from Cosimo Classics.