French Historians in the Nineteenth Century

French Historians in the Nineteenth Century
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 229
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ISBN-10 : 9781527534933
ISBN-13 : 1527534936
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Book Synopsis French Historians in the Nineteenth Century by : F.L. van Holthoon

Download or read book French Historians in the Nineteenth Century written by F.L. van Holthoon and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-22 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is a reflection on the major historians of nineteenth-century France, and shows that, near the end of the century, a major change of perspective occurred. The historians discussed in the opening sections of the book looked to the past for guidance, while modern historians from the twentieth-century onwards regard the past as a closed book which the historian has to open. Guizot is the hero of the first section of the book; in part two, Comtesse d’Agoult (Daniel Stern) is specifically mentioned, partly because she, who wrote a splendid history of the revolution of 1848, tends to be ignored as a historian while Michelet and Tocqueville are still discussed. The historians in part three are transitional figures who politically and morally still belong to the nineteenth-century, but whose histories show the new approach to the past.


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