Lost Worlds: The Emergence of French Social History, 1815-1970 - Paperback

by Jonathan Dewald (Author)

In Lost Worlds historian Jonathan Dewald shows that we need to look back further in time, into the nineteenth century, when numerous French intellectuals developed many of the key concepts that historians employ today. Lost Worlds sheds much-needed light on how contemporary ideas about the historian's task came into being.

Author Biography

Jonathan Dewald is Professor and UB Distinguished Professor of History at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He won the Leo Gershoy Award of the American Historical Association for his book Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture: France 1570-1715 (1993).