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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 primitive in comparison to their more celebrated successors. Pim den Boer begins by sketching the contours of French historiography in the nineteenth century, examining the quantity of historical writing, its subject matter, and who wrote it. He traces the growing influence of professional historians. He shows the increasing involvement of the natio...
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Translated and Edited with introduction, notes and index by Victor Leuliette, author of "French prose writers of the nineteenth century and after".
Bound set of catalogs of textbooks and educational apparatus published in London, England.
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