This work of the historian Antoine Prost, professor emeritus with the University of Paris I, quickly appeared like a reference book for all the apprentices historians.

Presentation of the work

Composed of twelve chapters which come from courses professed with students of the first cycle of the Sorbonne, this work wants to be a methodological reflection on the trade of historian and the contemporary Historiographie.

It treats following topics:

• the history in the French company (XIXe-XXe centuries)

• the profession historian
• the facts and historical criticism
• the questions of the historian
• times of the history
• the concepts
• the history like comprehension
• Imagination and causal charge
• the sociological model
• the social history
• Put in intrigue and narrativity
• the history is written
• Vérité and social function of the history

See too

• contemporary Historians