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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464606103321

Autore

DiVanna Isabel

Titolo

Writing history in the Third Republic [[electronic resource] /] / by Isabel Noronha-DiVanna

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010

ISBN

1-282-58826-5

9786612588266

1-4438-2010-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Disciplina

907.2044

Soggetti

Historiography - France - History - 19th century

Historiography - France - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

France History Third Republic, 1870-1940

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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...