Academy and Community : : The Foundation of the French Historical Profession / / William R. Keylor.

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• VerfasserIn: Keylor, William R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1975
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (286 p.)

Most informed observers would agree that an inordinate proportion of the most exciting, innovative, and ground-breaking work in the field of historical scholarship since the First World War has taken place in the French university system. In this book Keylor describes the establishment of history as...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Prologue
• Part One. The Era Of Hopes and Accomplishments
• 1. Prelude to Reform, 1866-1870
• 2. History's Role in the Regeneration of the Fatherland
• 3.The Institutionalization of Historical Study in the New Sorbonne
• 4. In Search Of La Methode Historique
• 5.History as Civic Instruction: The Conflict Of Science and Patriotism
• 6.The Record Of Scholarly Achievement, 1876-1900
• Part Two. Interdisciplinary Conflicts and Revised Objectives
• 7. The Challenge of the Science Of Society
• 8. Henri Βerr and the "Terrible Craving for Synthesis"
• 9. The Dissolution of the Republican Consensus
• 10. Social Science and the Restoration of the Republican Synthesis
• Epilogue
• Appendices Notes Works Cited Index
• Appendix A
• Appendix Β
• Appendix C
• Appendix D
• Appendix Ε
• Appendix F
• Appendix G
• Appendix Η
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index