{"product_id":"lost-worlds-the-emergence-of-french-social-history-18151970-9780271058665","title":"Lost Worlds The Emergence of French Social","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLost Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e historian Jonathan Dewald shows that we need to look back further in time, into the nineteenth century, when numerous French intellectuals developed many of the key concepts that historians employ today. \u003ci\u003eLost Worlds \u003c\/i\u003esheds much-needed light on how contemporary ideas about the historian’s task came into being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I found \u003ci\u003eLost Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e highly stimulating. It taught me new things about nineteenth-century historiography and made me rethink things I thought I knew about the Annales school. Dewald’s book should attract a wide audience among French historians and people interested in the development of historical thought.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Jeremy D. Popkin,University of Kentucky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eLost Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e provides a provocative new analysis of French cultural contexts that contributed to the emergence of modern social history and the creative, critical insights of modern historical thought.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Lloyd Kramer \u003ci\u003eCanadian Journal of History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book is an outstanding scholarly achievement that explores a revolution in scholarly thought with uncommon grace and erudition.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—S. Bailey \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Dewald’s open-minded, thoughtful, judicious approach draws on novels and literary criticism as well as historiography. His lucid style and coherent argumentation make his book a joy to read.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Laurence M. Porter \u003ci\u003eFrench Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The book offers a series of intelligent and engaging close readings of unfamiliar texts, and the analysis, while at times overstated, is thought provoking.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Siân Reynolds \u003ci\u003eEuropean History Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Historians and Modernity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.\t“À la Table de Magny”: Men of Letters and Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century Paris\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2.\tOrdering Time: The Problem of French Chronology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.\tGod and the Historian: Sainte-Beuve’s \u003ci\u003ePort-Royal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.\tLost Worlds: Lucien Febvre and the Alien Past\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.\tPrivate Lives and Historical Knowledge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.\tNobles as Signifiers: Making Sense of a Class Structure\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7.\tAn Alternative Path to Rural History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: On the Politics of Social History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penn State University","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51534929887575,"sku":"9780271058665","price":26.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271058665.jpg?v=1755858115","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/lost-worlds-the-emergence-of-french-social-history-18151970-9780271058665","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}