Histories: French Constructions of the Past (Postwar French Thought) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1565841956 ISBN 13: 9781565841956

Publisher: New Pr, 1995

Synopsis

The period from 1945 to the present has been one of the most intellectually fruitful in French history. Entirely new approaches to a number of fields have been developed, and the influence of French thinkers has resonated throughout the West, in many ways reformulating our approach to modern knowledge. This 654-page volume traces developments in French historiography from questions of social history and global history (1945-1960s), structuralism (mid-1960s through mid-1970s), the territory of the historian (1970s through mid-1980s), to criticisms and reformulations (1980s to the present). Featuring work by Franois Furet, Michel de Certeau, Michelle Perrot, Pierre Nora, Roger Chartier, Ernest Labrousse, Fernand Braudel, Claude Lvi-Strauss, Michel Foucault, Jacques Le Goff, Pierre Bourdieu, and others, this volume illuminates the most important controversies about historical method in the twentieth century.

About this title

About the Author:

Jacques Revel is a professor of history at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is the author (with Arlette Farge) of Vanishing Children of Paris.

Lynn Hunt is the Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of The Family Romance in the French Revolution and editor of The New Cultural History and the Invention of Pornography.

From Library Journal:

These 64 seminal essays by nearly as many authors span the past half-century and offer a multivoiced account of the changing methodologies, assumptions, and controversies in French historiography. The interests of these historians have been predominantly problem-centered economic and social history, and most of them have been associated with the journal Annales. In this work, editors Revel, who is writing a book about Annales, and Hunt (The Family Romance of the French Revolution, LJ 4/1/92) cover structuralism, the rise of quantitative history, and controversies concerning the French Revolution, among other topics. Graduate students and specialists will find this collection useful. Future volumes in the series will concern philosophy, literary criticism, and classical antiquity in recent French thought. For research collections.?R. James Tobin, Univ. of Wisconsin Lib., Milwaukee
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About this edition

• Publisher: New Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1565841956
• ISBN 13: 9781565841956
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 654
• Editor: Revel Jacques, Hunt Lynn