Histories - French Constructions of the Past: Postwar French Thought

New Press's four-volume Postwar French Thought Series charts the radical intellectual transformations that have taken place in post-World War II France. HISTORIES, the first volume in the series, focuses on the changing field of historiography. It contains selections from major foundational texts as well as lesser-known works, many translated here for the first time.

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.

Summary

Focusing on the changing field of historiography, this text sets the work of historians associated with the Annales school into the wider context of postwar French historiography, structuralism, quantitative methods and interdisciplinary studies.

Product details

• Authors: Jacques Revel
• Publisher: New Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1998
• EAN: 9781565844353
• ISBN: 978-1-56584-435-3
• No. of pages: 684
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 224 mm x 46 mm
• Weight: 907 g
• Series: New Press Postwar French Thoug; Postwar French Thought
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History