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  • An Analysis of Natalie Zemon Davis's The Return of Martin Guerre

    Series series The Macat Library
    Few stories are more captivating than the one told by Natalie Zemon Davis in The Return of Martin Guerre. Basing her research on records of a bizarre court case that occurred in 16th-century France, she uses the tale of a missing soldier – whose disappearance threatens the livelihood of his peasant wife – to explore complex social issues. Davis takes rich material – dramatic enough to have been ... Leer más

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  • An Analysis of Frederick Jackson Turner's The Significance of the Frontier in American History

    Series series The Macat Library
    Frederick Jackson Turner's 1893 essay on the history of the United States remains one of the most famous and influential works in the American canon.That is a testament to Turner's powers of creative synthesis; in a few short pages, he succeeded in redefining the way in which whole generations of Americans understood the manner in which their country was shaped, and their own character moulded, by ... Leer más

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  • An Analysis of Philippe Aries's Centuries of Childhood

    Series series The Macat Library
    A critical analysis of Centuries of Childhood, in which the French historian Philippe Aries offers a fundamentally fresh interpretation of what childhood is and what the institution means for society at large. Aries's core idea is that ‘childhood,’ as we understand it today – a special time that requires special efforts and resources – is an invention of the 19th century, and that before that date ... Leer más

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  • An Analysis of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

    Series series The Macat Library
    Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions can be seen, without exaggeration, as a landmark text in intellectual history.In his analysis of shifts in scientific thinking, Kuhn questioned the prevailing view that science was an unbroken progression towards the truth. Progress was actually made, he argued, via "paradigm shifts", meaning that evidence that existing scientific models are ... Leer más

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  • Opponents of the Annales School

    Series series History (R0)
    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. ... Leer más

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  • An Analysis of Lucien Febvre's The Problem of Unbelief in the 16th Century

    Series series The Macat Library
    Febvre asked this core question in The Problem of Unbelief: “Could sixteenth-century people hold religious views that were not those of official, Church-sanctioned Christianity, or could they simply not believe at all?” The answer informed a wider debate on modern history, particularly modern French history. Did the religious attitudes of the Enlightenment and the twentieth century—notably ... Leer más

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    Lucien Febvre's The Problem of Unbelief in the 16th Century

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    "What is the past and what can we really know about it? This is the big question Febvre explores in this 1942 text. Relying on his groundbreaking technique championing ‘problem-based history,’ Febvre focuses on sixteenth-century French writer François Rabelais to answer one controversial question: Was Rabelais really one of France’s first atheists? Febvre conducted thorough research on Rabelais ... Leer más

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    The Macat Analysis of Natalie Zemon Davis's The Return of Martin Guerre

    Narrado por Laurence Bouvard ...

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    1 horas 49 minutos

    The bizarre story of Martin Guerrea peasant who disappears from a small village in sixteenth-century France and whose place is taken by an imposterhas captivated historians for centuries.¶Natalie Zemon Davies, a historian with a special interest in gender studies, focuses on the role of Martin's wife, Bertrande, arguing that she plays a key role in the deceit and readily goes along with it.¶The ... Leer más

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