Lost Worlds: The Emergence of French Social History, 1815-1970

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Penn State Press, 1. stu 2010.

Today&’s interest in social history and private life is often seen as a twentieth-century innovation. Most often Lucien Febvre and the Annales school in France are credited with making social history a widely accepted way for historians to approach the past. In Lost Worlds historian Jonathan Dewald shows that we need to look back further in time, into the nineteenth century, when numerous French intellectuals developed many of the key concepts that historians employ today.

According to Dewald, we need to view Febvre and other Annales historians as participants in an ongoing cultural debate over the shape and meanings of French history, rather than as inventors of new topics of study. He closely examines the work of Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Hippolyte Taine, the antiquarian Alfred Franklin, Febvre himself, the twentieth-century historian Philippe Ari&ès, and several others. A final chapter compares specifically French approaches to social history with those of German historians between 1930 and 1970. Through such close readings Dewald looks beyond programmatic statements of historians&’ intentions to reveal how history was actually practiced during these years.

A bold work of intellectual history, Lost Worlds sheds much-needed light on how contemporary ideas about the historian&’s task came into being. Understanding this larger context enables us to appreciate the ideological functions performed by historical writing through the twentieth century.

 

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Historians and Modernity
1
Men of Letters and Historical Writing in NineteenthCentury Paris
17
The Problem of French Chronology
55
SainteBeuves PortRoyal
77
Lucien Lebvre and the Alien Past
97
5 Private Lives and Historical Knowledge
123
Making Sense of a Class Structure
155
7 An Alternative Path to Rural History
183
On the Politics of Social History
213
Bibliography
223
Index
235
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Jonathan Dewald is Professor and UB Distinguished Professor of History at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He won the Leo Gershoy Award of the American Historical Association for his book Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture: France 1570&–1715 (1993).

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