History as a Profession: The Study of History in France, 1818-1914
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History as a Profession: The Study of History in France, 1818-1914
By (Author) Pim den Boer
Translated by Arnold Pomerans
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Historiography
History of art
907.2044
Physical Properties
Paperback
488
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
652g
Description
This is a vivid portrait of the French historical profession in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, concluding just before the emergence of the famous Annales school of historians. It places the profession in its social, academic, and political context and shows that historians of the period have been unfairly maligned as amateurish and p
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Winner of the D. J. Veegens Prize of the Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen te Haarlem
