Imposing and full Manual

Larger than manual Bourdé and Martin (724 p. 403 against), this book is also presented visually so less arid. It seems more interesting and complete, even though the combined use of the two probably allows a closer look at the historiographical question.

Reading is not restricted to historians: clear and well written book, it can satisfy the curious. His chronological presentation of the various movements historians makes it all easy to understand, and the presentation of the specificities of each current with reference to numerous authors, precise dating and paralleling for using this book as much for a reading in full for a one-time consultation.

Here's the plan for this item:
1) The birth of contemporary history.
2) The methodical moment.
3) The moment in history - social science - from the 1920s to 1940s.
4) The social history "French" in its heyday: Labrousse, Braudel.
5) Expansion and Fragmentation: the "new history."
6) Between doubts and renewals - the years 1980-2000.

One will not find here the presentation of ancient historiography, medieval or modern; the role of the Enlightenment in history, or precursors of methodical history, are not treated; to these questions, you will see the work of Bourdé and Martin cited above (chapters 1-6).