Histories: French Constructions of the Past (Postwar French Thought)

The period from 1945 to the present has been one of the most intellectually fruitful in French history. Entirely new approaches to a number of fields have been developed and the influence of French thinkers has resonated throughout the West in many ways reformulating our approach to modern knowledge. This 654-page volume traces developments in French historiography from questions of social history and global history (1945-1960s) structuralism (mid-1960s through mid-1970s) the territory of the historian (1970s through mid-1980s) to criticisms and reformulations (1980s to the present). Featuring work by Franois Furet Michel de Certeau Michelle Perrot Pierre Nora Roger Chartier Ernest Labrousse Fernand Braudel Claude Lvi-Strauss Michel Foucault Jacques Le Goff Pierre Bourdieu and others this volume illuminates the most important controversies about historical method in the twentieth century.