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Lost Worlds : the emergence of French social history, 1815-1970 /

Today's interest in social history and private life is often seen as a twentieth-century innovation. Most often Lucien Febvre and the Annales school in France are credited with making social history a widely accepted way for historians to approach the past. In Lost Worlds, historian Jonathan De...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Dewald, Jonathan
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2006.
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Table des matières:
  • Introduction: Historians and Modernity
  • "A la Table de Magny": Men of Letters and Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century Paris
  • Ordering Time: The Problem of French Chronology
  • God and the Historian: Sainte-Beuve's Port-Royal
  • Lost Worlds: Lucien Febvre and the Alien Past
  • Private Lives and Historical Knowledge
  • Nobles as Signifiers: Making Sense of a Class Structure
  • An Alternative Path to Rural History
  • Conclusion: On the Politics of Social History.