Histories: French Constructions Of The Past : Postwar French Thought (Postwar French Thought , Vol 1)

The Period From 1945 To The Present Has Been One Of The Most Intellectually Fruitful In French History. Entirely New Approaches To A Number Of Fields Have Been Developed, And The Influence Of French Thinkers Has Resonated Throughout The West, In Many Ways Reformulating Our Approach To Modern Knowledge. This 654-page Volume Traces Developments In French Historiography From Questions Of Social History And Global History (1945-1960s), Structuralism (mid-1960s Through Mid-1970s), The Territory Of The Historian (1970s Through Mid-1980s), To Criticisms And Reformulations (1980s To The Present). Featuring Work By Francois Furet, Michel De Certeau, Michelle Perrot, Pierre Nora, Roger Chartier, Ernest Labrousse, Fernand Braudel, Claude Levi-Strauss, Michel Foucault, Jacques Le Goff, Pierre Bourdieu, And Others, This Volume Illuminates The Most Important Controversies About Historical Method In The Twentieth Century. library Journal these 64 Seminal Essays By Nearly As Many Authors Span The Past Half-century And Offer A Multivoiced Account Of The Changing Methodologies, Assumptions, And Controversies In French Historiography. Softcover. English. New Press. 1998. ISBN: 9781565844353. 654 pp. Good. Book No: 63463