| Description |
1 online resource |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 12, 2019) |
| Subject |
Historians -- France -- History -- 19th century
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Historiography -- France -- History -- 19th century
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HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
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Historians
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Historiography
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France
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781527534933 |
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1527534936 |
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