Academy and Community: The Foundation of the French Historical Profession

by William R. Keylor

Most informed observers would agree that an inordinate proportion of the most exciting, innovative, and ground-breaking work in the field of historical scholarship since the First World War has taken place in the French university system. In this book Keylor describes the establishment of history as an academic discipline in France between 1870 and 1914 and the formation of the "scientific" school of historical writing in the French university system...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674497848
• ISBN13: 9780674497849
• Release Date: February 1975
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"