Description |
vi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- Part One: History Today -- 1. French Intellectuals: From Marxism to Structuralism -- 2. Quantitative History -- 3. From Narrative History to Problem-oriented History -- 4. History and Ethnology -- Part Two: History in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century European Culture -- 5. The Birth of History in France -- 6. Book Licensing and Book Production in the Kingdom of France in the Eighteenth Century -- 7. Two Historical Legitimations of Eighteenth-Century French Society: Mably and Boulainvilliers -- 8. Civilization and Barbarism in Gibbon's History -- Part Three: America and the Idea of Democracy -- 9. From Savage Man to Historical Man: The American Experience in Eighteenth-Century French Culture -- 10. The Conceptual System of Democracy in America -- 11. Today's America: A Metamorphosis of the Idea of Equality -- Part Four: Aspects of Modern Jewish History -- To the Reader -- 12. Jews and French Democracy: Some Recent Books -- 13. Gershom Scholem and Jewish History -- 14. Israel and the French Left: The Misunderstanding -- 15. Israel, Zionism, and the Diaspora -- Notes -- Index |
Analysis |
France Historiography, to 1980 |
Notes |
Translation of: L'atelier de l'histoire |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Historiography -- History.
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Historiography -- France -- History.
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Historiography -- France.
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Historiography.
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LC no. |
84002638 |
ISBN |
0226273369 |
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