This is a vivid portrait of the French historical profession in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, concluding just before the emergence of the famous Annales school of historians. It places the profession in its social, academic, and political context and shows that historians of the period have been unfairly maligned as amateurish and p
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Winner of the D. J. Veegens Prize of the Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen te Haarlem
