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French History in the Last Twenty Years: The Rise and Fall of the Annales Paradigm There is no one historical journal that is more influential in the world today than the Annales: Economies, Societes, Civilisations. It is perhaps the only journal that is widely recognized by the shortened version of its
This fine analysis of the collective psychology of 18th-century peasantry by one of France’s most distinguished revolutionary historians, remains the best account to date of the phenomenon of the “Great Fear,” when a spontaneous wave of rural revolt, triggered by economic crisis, hunger, and political chaos, gripped France.
1 sty 2015 · Integrating recent historiography as well as a broad range of text and visual primary sources, this text is an engaging, clear and concise analysis of the French Revolution.
15 sie 2021 · Historical Research on Monday afternoons. Students contributed research on topics ranging from the Wars of Religion (N.M. Sutherland), aspects of Louis XIV’s reign (Roger Mettam, Julian and Cynthia Dent), to 1789 (George Rudé, Nora Temple, Olwen Hufton, Clive Church), and the nineteenth century.
A Concise History of France. This is the most up-to-date and comprehensive study of French history available, ranging from the early Middle Ages to the present. Among its central themes are the relationships between state and society, the impact of war, competition for power and the ways in which power has been used.
19 kwi 2016 · This is a revised, updated version of a work that, since first publication in 1990, has generally been acknowledged as the most lucid, readable, and best-informed analysis of the Annales school of history, which dominated the French historical scene for much of the twentieth century.
French Revolution was a critical period in the forging and contesting of collective identities among the linguistic and ethnic minorities who together made up a majority of French people.2 Their argument is predicated on two general propositions. First, France before 1789 was a society in which people’s main allegiance had
