Histories: French Constructions of the Past: Postwar French Thought - Paperback

by Jacques Revel (Author)

The New Press's four&-volume Postwar French Thought Series charts the intellectual transformations that took place in post-World War II France. Histories, the first volume in the Series, focuses on the way French thinkers reshaped the way we see and understand our past. The volume sets the work of historians associated with the Annales school into the wider context of postwar French historiography, structuralism, quantitative methods, and interdisciplinary studies. It contains selections from major foundational texts (Braudel, Labrousse, Duby, Chartier, and Wachtel) as well as works by Foucault, L vi-Strauss, Bourdieu, and Veyne, many of them translated here for the first time.

Author Biography

Jacques Revel is a professor of history at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is the author (with Arlette Farge) of "Vanishing Children of Paris."
Lynn Hunt is the Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of "The Family Romance in the French Revolution"and editor of "The New Cultural History and the Invention of Pornography.""