Writing history in the Third Republic
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 ..
eBook, English, 2010
Cambridge Scholars Pub., Newcastle upon Tyne, 2010
History
1 online resource (xxii, 273 pages)
9781443820103, 9781282588264, 9786612588266, 1443820105, 1282588265, 6612588268
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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
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