Writing history in the Third Republic / by Isabel Noronha-DiVanna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DiVanna, Isabel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography--France--History--19th century.

Historiography.

Historiography--France--History--20th century.

France--History--Third Republic, 1870-1940.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers new insight to one of the most neglected periods of historiographical output: that of French historians between 1860 and 1914, a period often referred to as of positivistic historians or the école méthodique. Having sought to assert their independence from Germanic influence by emphasising the French element in their work, historians in the period comprised between 1860 and 1914 sometimes described their approach as positivistic and maintained that this was a distinctively Fr...

Contents:

pt. I. The historical and intellectual context of the Méthodiques : from empire to republic

pt. II. Revisiting the École Méthodique

pt. III. After the Méthodiques.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-273).

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-282-58826-5

9786612588266

1-4438-2010-5

OCLC:

649900618