Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-233) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Historians and Modernity -- "A la Table de Magny": Men of Letters and Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century Paris -- Ordering Time: The Problem of French Chronology -- God and the Historian: Sainte-Beuve's Port-Royal -- Lost Worlds: Lucien Febvre and the Alien Past -- Private Lives and Historical Knowledge -- Nobles as Signifiers: Making Sense of a Class Structure -- An Alternative Path to Rural History -- Conclusion: On the Politics of Social History.
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