By Susan W. Friedman

ISBN-10: 0521561574

ISBN-13: 9780521561570

ISBN-10: 0521612152

ISBN-13: 9780521612159

Marc Bloch has been very influential within the improvement of either historical past and social technological know-how. Comparative historians, historic geographers, and historic sociologists have all pointed to his paintings as a version. This ebook is the 1st distinct exam of the connection of his paintings to either Durkheimian sociology and Vidalian geography. via a cautious exam of the debates during which he used to be concerned and the institutional conditions within which he labored, it areas Bloch's paintings inside its highbrow context, and assesses the character of his contribution. Professor Friedman argues that, regardless of the widespread claims of students in heritage, sociology and geography, Bloch didn't undertake both the Durkheimian or Vidalian method. either disciplines have been critical to his highbrow improvement, yet Bloch's relationships to the 2 disciplines have been interdependent, and the outcome used to be his personal hugely acclaimed and designated approach.

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