History as a profession
Subtitle: the study of history in France 1818-1914
By: Pim den Boer ; translated by Arnold J. Pomerans.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
Subjects: History -- Study and teaching -- France.; France -- History -- 19th century -- Historiography.
Genres: Historiography.
Description: 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.

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 History as a Profession will be indispensable reading for anyone interested in historiography, the history of nineteenth-century France, or the history of education.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-461) and index.