Based on analysis of archival and published sources, Opponents of the Annales School examines for the first time those who have dared to criticise and ignore one of the most successful currents of thought in modern historiography. It offers an original contribution to the understanding of an unavoidable chapter in modern intellectual history.
Joseph Tendler is a Postdoctoral Researcher, University of St Andrews, UK.
Contents Acknowledgements Note on the Text Abbreviations Introduction: 'Annales Continues...' PART I: ANNALES AT HOME 1. Annalistes: Pre-History and Trajectories 2. Annales: Institutions and Wider Resonances 3. Contestation and Entanglement PART II: VIEWS FROM WESTERN EUROPE 4. Marginal Difference - Germany 5. Marginal Encounters - The Italian Peninsula PART III: TRANS-ATLANTIC PASSAGES 6. 'Historians Against History' - England 7. The Challenge of Plurality - The United States of America References and Notes Bibliographical Note Index