| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Historians -- France -- History -- 19th century.
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Historians. |
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France. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Historiography -- France -- History -- 19th century.
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Historiography. |
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History. |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- France. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| ISBN |
9781527534933 (electronic book) |
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1527534936 (electronic book) |
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9781527534094 |
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