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What has happened to French social history?

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2010

Antoine Prost
Antoine Prost
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Université de Paris I
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This paper deals with the history of French social history. Social history was not created once and for all; it is an historical construction; it had a beginning and may come to an end. Hence, its history may be written. However, two preliminary qualifications are needed. I shall not comment on ancient or medieval social history, but on the only social history which I know a little, that of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Secondly, for the same reason, I shall only discuss French social history written by French historians.

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Historiographical Review
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The Historical Journal , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , September 1992 , pp. 671 - 679
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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