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Marc Bloch - A Life in History (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,316
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Marc Bloch - A Life in History (Hardcover, New): Carole Fink

Marc Bloch - A Life in History (Hardcover, New)

Carole Fink

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A serviceable biography of French historian Marc Bloch, whose career started literally days before WW I and ended with a hero's death in 1944 while serving in the French Resistance during WW II. Although highly regarded as a scholar (primarily for The Royal Touch, French Rural History, and Feudal Society), Bloch was no ivory-tower specialist. He came of age as the last ripples of the Dreyfus Affair swept over France and personally experienced and fought the revival of anti-Semitism between the wars. As an intelligence officer during WW I, he had a firsthand view of combat. Strange Defeat, his account of the happenings of 1918-40 that led to the defeat of France in 1940, is still considered one of the definitive accounts of that period, even though Capt. Bloch had at best a worm's-eye view of WW II as "Fuel King" (gasoline supply officer) of France's last Army. Fink (History/Univ, of North Carolina at Wilmington) makes much of Bloch's contributions to the reform of historical study and research in particular and French education in general, but most readers will find the more dramatic, more personal details here of greater interest. (Kirkus Reviews)
This is the first biography of Marc Bloch (1886-1944), historian, soldier in both world wars, and leader of the Resistance, who was captured, tortured, and died a heroic death. Based largely on Bloch's private letters, diaries and papers, as well as on other unpublished documents, it traces the remarkable life of this French-Jewish patriot under the Third Republic. As an historian, Bloch is perhaps best known for The Historian's Craft, an inspiring set of meditations on his life's work, and as co-founder of the now legendary journal Annales, which gave rise to a major school of historical writing. Profoundly influenced by the dark events that shaped his era - world wars, anti-semitism, and totalitarianism - Bloch has become something of an intellectual hero of our century, his life an epitome of the endeavour to uphold, in the face of such events, the spirit of unfettered critical enquiry.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: August 1989
First published: 1989
Authors: Carole Fink
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 394
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-37300-5
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
LSN: 0-521-37300-X
Barcode: 9780521373005

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