Historiografi

We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age o...

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A leading intellectual member of France's Freudian school, Michel de Certeau combined principles from the disciplines of religion, history, and psychoanalysis in order to redefine historiography and rethink the categories of history. In The W...

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Archives, monuments, celebrations:there are not merely the recollections of memory but also the foundations of history. Symbols, the third and final volume in Pierre Nora's monumental Realms of Memory, includes groundbreaking discussions of t...

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Archives, monuments, celebrations:there are not merely the recollections of memory but also the foundations of history. Symbols, the third and final volume in Pierre Nora's monumental Realms of Memory, includes groundbreaking discussions of t...

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Archives, monuments, celebrations:there are not merely the recollections of memory but also the foundations of history. Symbols, the third and final volume in Pierre Nora's monumental Realms of Memory, includes groundbreaking discussions of t...

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"My task is piecing together a puzzle...I hope to reconstitute the existence of a person whose memory has been abolished...I want to re-create him, to give him a second chance...to become part of the memory of his century." With these wo...

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Francois Hartog explores crucial moments of change in society's "regimes of historicity," or its ways of relating to the past, present, and future. Inspired by Hannah Arendt, Reinhart Koselleck, and Paul Ricoeur, Hartog analyzes a b...

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Francois Hartog explores crucial moments of change in society's "regimes of historicity," or its ways of relating to the past, present, and future. Inspired by Hannah Arendt, Reinhart Koselleck, and Paul Ricoeur, Hartog analyzes a b...

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We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age o...

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As omnipresent as it is ungraspable, time has always inspired and eluded attempts to comprehend it. For the early Christians, for the twenty-first-century world, how have past and future been woven into the present? In Chronos, a leading French hi...

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Today, history is increasingly written in the first person. A growing number of historical works include an autobiographical dimension, as if writing about the past required exploring the inner life of the author. Neither traditional history nor a...

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The last of Cyrus the Greats dynastic inheritors and the legendary enemy of Alexander the Great, Darius III ruled over a Persian Empire that stretched from the Mediterranean to the Indus River. Yet, despite being the most powerful king of his time...

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The exploits of Alexander the Great were so remarkable that for centuries after his death the Macedonian ruler seemed a figure more of legend than of history. Thinkers of the European Enlightenment, searching for ancient models to understand conte...

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In 1808, Napoleon I (1769-1821), Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815, commissioned a series of reports on the progress of scientific research since 1789. Published in 1810, this report on the current state of history and classical literature w...

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There is no doubt that local and regional history, considered by many as a kind of minor historical study, has a pressing need for a systematic inventory of its resources. This collection shows the durability, the vividness, and the astonishing pr...

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WORK IS IN FRENCH This book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportu...

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Questions historiques / Fustel de Coulanges, ...; revues et completees d'apres les notes de l'auteur par Camille Jullian, ...Date de l'edition originale: 1893Sujet de l'ouvrage: Polybe (0200-0120 av. J.-C.)Propriete fonciere -- HistoireChio (Grece...

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WORK IS IN FRENCH This book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportu...

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WORK IS IN FRENCH This book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportu...

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Cours d'etude pour l'instruction du prince de Parme.... Directions pour la conscience d'un roi. T. 11 / par M. l'abbe de Condillac, ...; par Francois de Salignac de La Motte-Fenelon, ...Date de l'edition originale: 1775Sujet de l'ouvrage: educatio...

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la fin de l'Itinraire de Paris Jrusalem, Chateaubriand envisage d'lever un monument la patrie. Ce monument - l'Analyse raisonne de l'histoire de France -, il l'rigera durant les dernires annes de la Restauration et le publiera directement dans le ...

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Extrait : "e;Un peuple n'a pas une histoire par le fait seul de son existence ; il faut que sa vie soit active et feconde. Le peuple historique est celui qui trouve les regles d'un etat politique et social, et qui met un certain ordre dans le ...

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Extrait : "e;Le dix-neuvieme siecle, a son aurore, est marque par des evenements dont les temps eloignes de nous n'offrent aucun exemple. Je ne vois dans les annales du monde que deux epoques qui peuvent, sous quelques rapports, entrer en para...

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