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Title

The Annales school : an intellectual history / André Burguière ; translated from the French by Jane Marie Todd ; foreword by Timothy Tackett.

Author

Burguière, André.

Publication

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.

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Description

xiv, 309 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"A new approach Co the study of history emerged in France in the late 1920s around the history journal Annales d'histoire economique et sociale. The Annales school, as it came to be identified, grew to be the preeminent twentieth-century movement in historical scholarship. Its bold agenda of a "total history" embracing all the social sciences captivated historians worldwide." "In The Annales School, Andre Burguiere explores the origins and evolution of this group that still widely influences the study and teaching of history. Intimately involved in all of the publishing decisions and direction of the Annales since 1969, Burguiere is uniquely well qualified to write this intriguing story. Drawing on firsthand experience and his own training as a historian, he offers fascinating portraits of the key figures of the movement. He deftly addresses such matters as the complicated relationship between Bloch and Febvre, the engagement of the Annales school with other historical currents such as micro-history and social anthropology, and the school's gradual shift from the socioeconomic to the sociocultural. He also steps back to assess the long-term contributions - and failures - of the Annales school."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

École des annales. English

Alternative Title

École des annales.

Subject

• Annales school > History
• Historiography > France
• History > Methodology
• History > Philosophy
• History > Study and teaching (Higher) > France

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-293) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The early Annales : portrait of a review -- Agreements and disagreements : caught between two directors -- The notion of mentalities, invented or inherited? -- Thinking together : the enquêtes collectives -- The Labrousse moment -- From total history to global history -- The history of death : anthropology of the body and self-consciousness -- Passing of the comet -- Must we be done with mentalities? -- Return to the political.

ISBN

• 9780801446658 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0801446651 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008032877

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library