Antoine Prost

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A vast amount of literature has emerged on the First World War and its repercussions since the Armistice. Two leading historians therefore present this comparative analysis of the ways in which the history has been written and interpreted. Identifying three generations of historians, literary scholars, film directors and writers who have commented upon the war, they assess social and cultural interpretations as well as diplomatic and military studies, seen primarily through the eyes of French, German and British writers.

Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present

The Great War in History

As lições que se devem saber sobre a História e sobre o ofício de historiador. Neste livro, cujo conteúdo é extraído de um curso realizado na Sorbonne, Antoine Prost analisa, com toda a clareza, cada uma das etapas do método histórico, sem deixar de reposicionar a História e o historiador na sociedade contemporânea e em sua profissão. Além de um tratado de iniciação ao trabalho de reflexão – alimentado por amplas leituras –, esta obra reflete uma forma de pensar original. "O desafio que, daqui em diante, os historiadores devem enfrentar é o de transformar a demanda de memória de seus contemporâneos em história." "O culto do passado responde à incerteza do futuro e à ausência de projeto coletivo. A derrocada das grandes ideologias – que, no plano político, constitui um progresso inegável da lucidez – deixa nossos contemporâneos sem referências."

Doze lições sobre a história

La Résistance, une histoire sociale

Through the life of one extraordinary man, this biography reveals what the term human rights meant to the men and women who endured two world wars, and how this major political and intellectual movement ultimately inspired and enshrined the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. René Cassin was a man of his generation, committed to moving from war to peace through international law, and whose work won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968. His life crossed all the major events of the first seventy years of the twentieth century, and illustrates the hopes, aspirations, failures and achievements of an entire generation. It shows how today's human rights regimes emerged from the First World War as a pacifist response to that catastrophe and how, after 1945, human rights became a way to go beyond the dangers of absolute state sovereignty, helping to create today's European project.

From the Great War to the Universal Declaration

René Cassin and Human Rights

Les anciens combattants et la société française: Histoire

Le recours simultané aux méthodes classiques de l'histoire ou de la sociologie et à celles, plus neuves de la linguistique ou de l'ethnologie, permet à l'auteur d'analyser les comportements et les mentalités des classes moyennes de la société française entre les deux guerres.

Tome 1 : Histoire

Les anciens combattants et la société française 1914-1939. Tome 1 : Histoire

Presents a new interpretation of the history of human rights through the biography of a key player in the movement.

Since the Armistice, a vast literature has been produced on the First World War and its repercussions. In this 2005 book, two leading historians from the United States and France have produced a fully comparative analysis of the ways in which this history has been written and interpreted. The book identifies three generations of historians, literary scholars, film directors and writers who have commented upon the war. Through a thematic structure, it assesses not only diplomatic and military studies but also the social and cultural interpretations of the Great War as seen primarily through the eyes of French, German and British writers. It provides a fascinating case study of the practice of history in the twentieth century and of the enduring importance of the national lens in shaping historical narrative. This interesting study will prove invaluable reading to scholars and students in history, war studies, European history and international relations.

The first comprehensive survey of interpretations of the Great War from 1914 to 2020.

Antoine Prost

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