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History as a Profession: The Study of History in France, 1818-1914
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
History as a Profession: The Study of History in France, 1818-1914
Contributors:
By (Author) Pim den Boer
Translated by Arnold Pomerans
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
28th June 2016
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
944.06
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
488
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
851g
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
