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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
February 2014
Print publication year:
2013
First published in:
1894
Online ISBN:
9781139452953
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139452953
Subjects:
Social and Population History, Area Studies, European History: General Interest, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
Series:
Cambridge Library Collection - European History
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Book description

Paul Lacombe (1834–1919) had a varied career as a historian, senior official and general inspector of libraries and archives. He was one of the most brilliant minds of his day: in 1859 he graduated as first in his class from the elite École Nationale des Chartes, and he was made Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1887. In 1894, Lacombe published this groundbreaking work, which put him at the heart of the debate about l'histoire science - history served by scientific inquiry - at a time of intense controversy among historians and sociologists. Lacombe insisted on the need for the historian to make strict selections of evidence and to establish a hierarchy among facts. He also laid the foundations of a history which brings social and economic factors to the forefront of investigation. The book remains important and relevant to historians, sociologists and ethnologists.

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