History Extension Assessment Task

... "How have the issues of objectivity and selection of material affected the work of Historians overtime? (Paying specific reference to at least four historians from a range)" The works of historians have been significantly affected by the issues of objectivity and selection of material. Thucydides, Leopold von Ranke, Marc Bloch and Keith Windschuttle illustrate the importance of objectivity and selection of material overtime. Historians have engaged with the issues of objectivity and selection of material in relation to what they have written techniques they have used, their language and style as well as their purpose for writing the text. A detailed examination of a selection of historical writings will make these matters clear. The issue of objectivity and selection of material have been demonstrated in Thucydides "History of the Peloponnesian War." Thucydides writes a history which is largely a narrative, describing what happened during the Peloponnesian Wars between Sparta and Athens.

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