French Historians 1900-2000
New Historical Writing in Twentieth-Century France
1. Edition April 2010
632 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
French Historians 1900-2000: The New Historical Writing in
Twentieth-Century France examines the lives and writings of 40
of France's great twentieth-century historians.
* Blends biography with critical analysis of major works, placing
the work of the French historians in the context of their life
stories
* Includes contributions from over 30 international scholars
* Provides English-speaking readers with a new insight into the
key French historians of the last century
Introduction.
1. Maurice Agulhon (1926- )
2. Philippe Ariès (1914-1984)
3. Jacques Berque (1910-1995)
4. Marc Bloch (1886-1944)
5. Fernand Braudel (1902-1985)
6. Michel de Certeau (1925-1986)
7. Roger Chartier (1945- )
8. Pierre Chaunu (1923-2009)
9. Louis Chevalier (1911-2001)
10. Alain Corbin (1936- )
11. Jean Delumeau (1923- )
12. Jacques Droz (1909-1998)
13. Georges Duby (1919-1996)
14. Bernard Faÿ (1893-1978)
15. Lucien Febvre (1878-1956)
16. Marc Ferro (1924- )
17. Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
18. François Furet (1927-1997)
19. Etienne Gilson (1884-1978)
20. Jacques Godechot (1907-1989)
21. Pierre Goubert (1915- )
22. Elie Halévy (1870-1937)
23. Paul Hazard (1878-1944)
24. Ernest Labrousse (1895-1988)
25. Jacques Le Goff (1924- )
26. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929- )
27. Georges Lefebvre (1874-1959)
28. Albert Mathiez (1874-1932)
29. Roland Mousnier (1907-1993)
30. Pierre Nora (1931- )
31. Mona Ozouf (1931- )
32. Michelle Perrot (1928- )
33. Henri Pirenne (1862-1935)
34. René Rémond (1918-2007)
35. Daniel Roche (1935- )
36. Gaston Roupnel (1871-1946)
37. Henry Rousso (1954- )
38. Pierre de Saint Jacob (1905-1960)
39. Henri Sée (1864-1936)
40. François Simiand (1873-1935)
41. Albert Soboul (1914-1982)
42. Michel Vovelle (1933- )
"Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty." (Choice, 1 February 2011)
of History at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg,
Virginia. His research interests are the social, religious, and
cultural history of Mediterranean Europe, especially southern
France and Spain, during the Middle Ages. He is the author of
True Citizens: Violence, Memory, and Identity in the Medieval
Community of Perpignan, 1162-1397 (2000; French translation
2004).
Philip Whalen is Associate Professor of History and
Director of the Honors Program at Coastal Carolina University. His
research interests are in tourism, gastronomy, and the vectors of
identity formation in twentieth-century France. He is the author of
Gaston Roupnel: âme paysanne et sciences humaines
(2001) and is currently working on an ecological history of
Burgundy's Clos de Bèze vineyards.