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- Title
For Science and Country: History Writing, Nation Building, and National Embeddedness in Third Republic France, 1870–1914.
- Authors
Lancereau, Guillaume
- Abstract
This article examines late nineteenth and early twentieth-century historiographical practices and convictions in Third Republic France. It shifts the focus from the question of whether French academic historians were nationalists to the issue of how they were nationalists. If republican academic historians took a critical stance on nationalist distortions of the past, they nevertheless associated the teaching of history with patriotism and opposed historiographical "pan-Germanism" in ways favorable to French cultural and territorial claims. Meanwhile, the growing internationalization of the field stimulated scholarly competition across the West and spurred reflections about nationals' epistemological privilege over national histories, methodological nationalism, and the invention of national historiographical traditions. Uncovering the anxieties of continual debate with foreign historians and the nationalist right wing, this article offers a prehistory of present-day dilemmas over global, national, and nationalist histories in an international field characterized by structural inequalities and academic competition.
- Subjects
FRENCH Third Republic; NATION building; HISTORIANS
- Publication
Modern Intellectual History, 2023, Vol 20, Issue 1, p88
- ISSN
1479-2443
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1479244321000652