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History and Social Theory (2nd Edition)

(uk) Peter Burke

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What use is social theory to a historian? What use is history to the social theorist? As an outstanding cultural historian, Burke provides clear, powerful and far-reaching answers to these two seemingly simple questions in this book. In this revised and updated second edition of this classic text, Burke reexamines the relationship between the two fields of history and the social sciences and their initial convergence in recent decades. This second edition of History and Social Theory will continue to inspire students and scholars to cross disciplinary boundaries by challenging current perceptions of the roles of history and the social sciences.

French Historiographic Revolution

(uk) Peter Burke

138K0

This book is a critical history of the French Annals School, examining the sixty-year development history of this historical research group since the founding of the Annals magazine in 1929. There is no doubt that the Annales School was the most influential historical innovation movement in the 20th century. In the development process of the so-called "new history", it is the most important driving force. The Yearbook Group combines traditional history with geography, economics, linguistics, psychology, anthropology and other social sciences, expanding the field of history to a vast field of human activities, and creating a series of new methods, such as problem-oriented history, comparative history, historical psychology, geographical history, long-term history, serial history, historical anthropology, etc. Peter Burke distinguished three generations of scholars in the development of the Annales School. The first generation included the founders Lucien Fevere and Marc Bloch, who waged war against the traditional historiography system and created the magazine Annales to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration. The second generation was dominated by Braudel, who was already regarded as the most outstanding historian of his generation. The third generation includes famous contemporary historians such as Dupuy, Le Goff, and Leroy Ladurie. Burke's analysis is thorough and concise, and the key classics and branches of the Annales movement are clearly visible. This book was published by our company in 2006. Due to its concise and clear narrative and beautiful and smooth translation, it has become a must-read for introductory reading about the French Annales School, and has also become a classic recommendation in the history classes of major universities.