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Political history is the narrative and analysis of political events, ideas, movements, and leaders. It is usually structured around the nation state. The first "scientific" political history was written by Leopold von Ranke in Germany in the 19th century. His methodologies profoundly affected the way historians critically examine sources; see historiography for a more complete analysis of the methodology of various approaches to history.

According to Hegel, Political History "is a concept of the state with a moral and spiritual force beyond the marerial interests of its subjects: it followed that the state was the main agent of historical change" <ref>Tosh, John: The Pursuit of History, 2nd edition, London Group UK Limited, USA, 1991, pg.74</ref>

[edit] See also

• Diplomatic history
• Historiography
• Political history of Eastern Africa

[edit] External links

• Richard J. Jensen, Historiography of American Political History. In Jack Greene, ed., Encyclopedia of American Political History (New York: Scribner's, 1984), vol 1. pp 1-25
• Politics: The historical development of economic, legal, and political ideas and institutions, ideologies and movements. In The Dictionary of the History of Ideas.
• http://www.parlements.org/ French Website of the Comité d'histoire parlementaire et politique (Parliamentary and Political History Committee) and its triennial review Parlement(s) Histoire et politique. It contains a lot of information about French political history, including about 900 references of scholarly political history studies

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