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Constructing the Past
Essays in Historical Methodology

Editors:
Jacques Le Goff
Pierre Nora
Introduction by: Colin Lucas

Colin Lucas, Francois Furet, David Denby, Pierre Chaunu, Martin Thom, Pierre Vilar, Ian Patterson, Emmanuel le Roy Laudrie, André Burguière, Alphonse Dupront, Georges Duby, Jacques le Goff, Mona Ozouf, Roger Chartier, Daniel Roche

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Date Published: May 2011
availability: Available
format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521277822

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This 1985 book presents a selection of ten of the most significant contributions to Faire de l'histoire, a major three-volume exposition of the fresh state of French historiography first published in 1974. All the essays were commissioned from historians representing the best of the 'Annales' tradition, including Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie, François Furet and Georges Duby. The first five essays concentrate upon the physical world, and deal with some of the more familiar aspects of 'new history'; the second half of the book is concerned with the unconscious world of mentalités, the network of belief, symbol and cultural practice that is attracting the attention of historians in ever-increasing numbers. In an introduction Colin Lucas places the essays in this collection within the long-term development of French historical study, and assesses not only its great strengths but also some of the doubts and dilemmas to which it has given rise.

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- Date Published: May 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521277822
- length: 224 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.34kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction Colin Lucas
1. Quantitative methods in history Francois Furet (translated by David Denby)
2. Economic history: past achievements and future prospects Pierre Chaunu (translated by Martin Thom)
3. Constructing Marxist history Pierre Vilar (translated by Ian Patterson)
4. The history of climate Emmanuel le Roy Laudrie (translated by David Denby)
5. Demography André Burguière (translated by David Denby)
6. Religion and religious anthropology Alphonse Dupront (translated by Martin Thom)
7. Ideologies in social history Georges Duby (translated by David Denby)
8. Mentalities: a history of ambiguities Jacques le Goff (translated by David Denby)
9. The festival in the French Revolution Mona Ozouf (translated by David Denby)
10. New approaches to the history of the book Roger Chartier and Daniel Roche (translated by David Denby)
Index.
Editors
Jacques Le Goff
Pierre Nora
Introduction by
Colin Lucas
Contributors
Colin Lucas, Francois Furet, David Denby, Pierre Chaunu, Martin Thom, Pierre Vilar, Ian Patterson, Emmanuel le Roy Laudrie, André Burguière, Alphonse Dupront, Georges Duby, Jacques le Goff, Mona Ozouf, Roger Chartier, Daniel Roche