Lost Worlds: The Emergence of French Social History, 1815-1970.(Book review)

From: Canadian Journal of History | Date: September 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Lost Worlds: The Emergence of French Social History, 1815-1970, by Jonathan Dewald. University Park, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. xi, 241 pp. $50.00 US (cloth).

Historical accounts of nineteenth-century European culture usually depict that era's historians as Romantic nationalists or as dull experts on kings and government archives. According to this traditional narrative of cultural history, which Jonathan Dewald vigorously challenges in his valuable new book, historians plodded along conventional political paths until twentieth-century social ...

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