The French Historical Revolution (eBook)

Peter Burke is Professor Emeritus of Cultural History at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.

Acknowledgements

Preface to the Second Edition

Introduction

1 The Old Historiographical Regime and its Critics

2 The Founders: Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch

i The Early Years

ii Strasbourg

iii The Foundation of Annales

iv The Institutionalization of Annales

3 The Age of Braudel

i The Mediterranean

ii The Later Braudel

iii The Rise of Quantitative History

4 The Third Generation

i From the Cellar to the Attic

ii The 'Third Level' of Serial History

iii Reactions: Anthropology, Politics, Narrative

5 New Directions (1989-2014)

6 The Annales in Global Perspective

i Reception and Resistance

ii Striking a Balance

Glossary: The Language of Annales

Chronology

Bibliography

Index

No one has had a greater collective impact on modern
historiography than the historians of the Annales school, and no
one has appraised their aims and achievements with more sympathetic
insight than Peter Burke. His concise, inclusive, and authoritative
survey of the transformations they brought about is itself a
powerful incentive to think reflectively about the idea of
history.

Stuart Clark, University of Swansea [and editor of The Annales
School: Critical Assessments, 1999.]

Eminent historian of modern France, Peter Burke is also a great
connoisseur of French historians, and especially of the Annales
School. This new and expanded edition of The French Historical
Revolution brings out the contribution of a 4th generation of the
Annales open to the diversity of the world, its hybridity and
cultural encounters through the work of its most original and
productive representatives, such as Serge Gruzinski, Lucette
Valensi and Nathan Wachtel.

André Burguière, L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes on
Sciences Sociales