TY - BOOK AU - den Boer,Pim AU - Pomerans,Arnold TI - History as a Profession: The Study of History in France, 1818-1914 T2 - Princeton Legacy Library SN - 9780691605159 AV - DC36.9 .B6413 1998eb U1 - 907/.2044 21 PY - 2014///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - France -- History -- 19th century -- Historiography KW - History -- Study and teaching -- France KW - History -- Study and teaching -- France.;France -- History -- 19th century -- Historiography KW - History KW - Study and teaching KW - France KW - ART / History / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --; TABLES --; PREFACE --; CHAPTER ONE. The Contours of French Histonography, 1820-1914 --; CHAPTER TWO. Paying for History --; CHAPTER THREE. History at School --; CHAPTER FOUR. History and Higher Education --; CHAPTER FIVE. The Old Professors and the New --; CHAPTER SIX. Changes in Professional Wnting --; CONCLUSION --; APPENDIXES --; NOTES --; SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY --; NAME INDEX --; About the Author; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 primitive in comparison to their more celebrated successors.Pim den Boer begins by sketching the contours of French historiography in the nineteenth century, examining the quantity of historical writing, its subject matter, and who wrote it. He traces the growing influence of professional historians. He shows the increasing involvement of the national government in historical studies, paying special attention to the impact of political factions, ranging from ultraroyalists to radical republicans. He explores how historical research and teaching changed at schools and universities. And he shows how nineteenth-century historians' keen understanding of the past and of historical methodology laid the foundations for historiography in the twentieth century. archives, including official documents, confidential reports, and personal letters. Den Boer makes use of statistical, biographical, and methodological analysis and demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of both minor historians and leading scholars, including Charles Seignobos and Charles-Victor Langlois.Originally published in 1998.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400864843 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400864843 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400864843.jpg ER -