French historians in the nineteenth century : providence and history / by F. L. van Holthoon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holthoon, F. L. van, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historians--France--History--19th century.

Historians.

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

Historiography.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.

Summary:

This study is a reflection on the major historians of nineteenth-century France, and shows that, near the end of the century, a major change of perspective occurred. The historians discussed in the opening sections of the book looked to the past for guidance, while modern historians from the twentieth-century onwards regard the past as a closed book which the historian has to open. Guizot is the hero of the first section of the book; in part two, Comtesse d'Agoult (Daniel Stern) is specifically mentioned, partly because she, who wrote a splendid history of the revolution of 1848, tends to be ignored as a historian while Michelet and Tocqueville are still discussed. The historians in part three are transitional figures who politically and morally still belong to the nineteenth-century, but whose histories show the new approach to the past.

Contents:

Intro

Dedication

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter One

Part One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Part Two

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Part Three

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

A Biographical Note

Cited Works

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-3493-6

OCLC:

1183030370