{"product_id":"lost-worlds-jonathan-dewald-9780271028903","title":"Lost Worlds: The Emergence of French Social History, 1815-1970","description":"\u003cp\u003eToday's interest in social history and private life is often seen as a twentieth-century innovation. Most often Lucien Febvre and the Annales school in France are credited with making social history a widely accepted way for historians to approach the past. In \u003ci\u003eLost Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e historian Jonathan Dewald shows that we need to look back further in time, into the nineteenth century, when numerous French intellectuals developed many of the key concepts that historians employ today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to Dewald, we need to view Febvre and other Annales historians as participants in an ongoing cultural debate over the shape and meanings of French history, rather than as inventors of new topics of study. He closely examines the work of Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Hippolyte Taine, the antiquarian Alfred Franklin, Febvre himself, the twentieth-century historian Philippe Ariès, and several others. A final chapter compares specifically French approaches to social history with those of German historians between 1930 and 1970. Through such close readings Dewald looks beyond programmatic statements of historians' intentions to reveal how history was actually practiced during these years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bold work of intellectual history, \u003ci\u003eLost Worlds \u003c\/i\u003esheds much-needed light on how contemporary ideas about the historian's task came into being. Understanding this larger context enables us to appreciate the ideological functions performed by historical writing through the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Dewald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271028904\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271028903\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.38w x 0.82d","brand":"Jonathan Dewald","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064808812799,"sku":"9780271028903","price":72.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dcc94c0f-ff85-456d-a464-6447c0dd92db.jpg?v=1768671169","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lost-worlds-jonathan-dewald-9780271028903","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}