Summary
Veronique Sales: Historians
The contributions collected in the book present the work of the most prominent European historians of the 19th and 20th centuries: Tocqueville, Karl Marx, Marc Bloch, Renouvin, Le Goff...
Each of the mentioned paths is, of course, unique - which is the richness of this book - and also exemplary, because it testifies to how an individual enrolled in its era. The historian bears witness to his own time as much as he tries to resurrect another time and recreate it as he envisions and dreams of it. Each historian speaks as much about himself as about the people of the dead whose messenger he wished to be.
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