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historical school

1. (Economics) a group of 19th-century German economists who maintained that modern economies evolved from historical institutions

2. (Law) the school of jurists maintaining that laws are based on social and historical circumstances rather than made by a sovereign power

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historical school - a school of 19th century German economists and legal philosophers who tried to explain modern economic systems in evolutionary or historical terms

school - a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers; "the Venetian school of painting"

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Some of the writers, who come from the younger schools of history, are particularly involved in looking at the earlier period of our story.

Why our history matters

This history would, among other things, 1) recognize that "all schools of history are possible and legitimate"; 2) "there is no history without documents"; 3) "there is," he quotes Febvre, "no history without a project," without reflection on methodology, ends, and limits of history.