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In the workshop of history
Atelier de l'histoire. English
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- Creator
- François Furet ; translated by Jonathan Mandelbaum
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- Books
- Languages
- English, French
- Publication
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1984
- Physical Details
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- vi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226273365, 0226273369
- OCLC
- ocm10725318
- Translation of: L'atelier de l'histoire.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Part one: History today -- French intellectuals: from Marxism to structuralism -- Quantitative history -- From narrative history to problem-oriented history -- History and ethnology -- Part two: History in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European culture -- The birth of history in France -- Book licensing and book production in the Kingdom of France in the eighteenth century -- Two historical legitimations of eighteenth-century French society: Mably and Boulainvilliers -- Civilization and barbarism in Gibbon's history -- Part three: America and the idea of democracy -- From savage man to historical man: the American experience in Eighteenth-century French culture -- The conceptual system of Democracy in America -- Today's America: a metamorphosis of the idea of equality -- Part four: Aspects of modern Jewish history -- Jews and French democracy: some recent books -- Gershom Scholem and Jewish history -- Israel and the French left: the misunderstanding -- Israel, Zionism, and the Diaspora