André Burguière

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André Burguière (* 1938 in Paris ) is a French social and modern historian who belongs to the Annales School . Burguière is Research Director at the elite university École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris.

Life

Burguière attended the Lycée Henri IV and the École normal supérieure . He deals with social history and historical anthropology (period of the Ancien Régime in France), especially the history of the family in the 16th to 19th centuries, demography, history of rural communities, as well as the history of the historical and social sciences (especially the Annales school) and comparative anthropology of national images in Europe. In particular, from the 1960s he was involved in an extensive joint project researching the history of a Breton community ( Plozévet ), which he summarizes in his book Bretons de Plozévet .

He was visiting professor at the University of Michigan , New York University , Berkeley University , University of Virginia , University of California, Irvine , Lorand Eötvös University Budapest , Academia Sinica in Taipei and at the Franco-Japanese Institute in Tokyo.

He was on the editorial board of Annales magazine and was its secretary from 1969 to 1976. Since 1975 he has been writing regularly for the Nouvel Observateur . From 1970 he produced the program Au carrefour des sciences de l'homme with Olivier Burgelin on the radio station France Culture and from 1971 with Jean Marc Leuwen the TV series Les Chemins de l'Histoire on Antenne 2.

Fonts

  • Le Mariage et l'amour; en France de la Renaissance à la Révolution, Paris, Le Seuil, 2011
  • L'école des Annales. Une histoire intellectuelle, Paris, Odile Jacob, 2006
    • English translation: The Annales School, an Intellectual History, preface by Timothey Tackett, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2009
  • with François Lebrun: La Famille en Occident du XVIe au XVIIIe siècles, Brussels, éd. Complexes, 2005
  • with Grew Raymond: The Construction of Minorities; Cases for Comparison across Time and around the World, Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, 2003
  • Editor with Jacques Revel : Histoire de la France, Paris, Seuil, 5 volumes, 1989–1993, paperback 2001
  • Paysages et paysans, Paris, Nathan, 1991
  • Editor with Hartmut Atsma : Marc Bloch aujourd'hui; histoire comparée et sciences sociales, Paris, Éditions de l'EHESS, 1990
  • Editor with Christiane Klapisch, Martine Segalen, Françoise Zonabend: Histoire de la famille, 2 volumes, Paris, Armand Colin, 1985
    • German edition: History of the family, 3 volumes, Campus 1997
  • Dictionnaire des sciences historiques, Paris, PUF, 1986.
  • Regards sur la France. Un peuple dans son histoire, Paris, La documentation française, 1982
  • Editor with Jean Daniel: Le Tiers-Monde et la gauche, Paris, Le Seuil; 1979
  • Bretons de Plozévet, Paris, Flammarion, 1975

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personal data
SURNAME Burguière, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris