Home and the World Dwelling in the Archive by Antoinette Burton; Oxford University Press, 2003;
APARNA BASU For long historians depended on official records deposited in state for archives reconstructing the past. Leopold Von Ranke regarded as the father of modern historiography exhausted one archive after another in Berlin, Paris, Rome, Vienna, and London, meticulously going through the documents before writing his volumes on European history. Lord Acton
