Jacques Revel

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Jacques Revel

Jacques Revel (* 1942 in Avignon ) is a French modern historian from the Annales School . During his academic career, he worked at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris .

Life

Revel attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and studied from 1963 at the elite university École normal superieure with the degree of agrégation in history in 1968. He then went to the École française de Rome and taught at the Sorbonne, the École Normale Superieure and finally to of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), of which he was director from 1995 to 2004.

He deals with social and cultural history of the early modern period in Europe and especially in Italy. He also deals with historiography and methodology of the science of history and introduced the Italian microhistory current to France .

Fonts

  • with Michel de Certeau , Dominique Julia : Une politique de la langue. La Révolution Française et les patois. L'enquête de Grégoire (1790-1794) , Paris, 1975, new edition, Gallimard, Folio, Paris 2002.
  • with Dominique Julia, Roger Chartier : Histoire sociale des populations étudiantes , Paris, EHESS, 2 volumes
  • Editor with Jacques Le Goff, Roger Chartier: The Recapture of Historical Thought: Foundations of New History , Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1990.
  • (Ed.): Jeux d'échelle , Le Seuil-Gallimard, Paris 1996.
  • Editor with François Hartog : Les usages politiques du passé , Enquête, Paris, éditions de l'EHESS, 2001.
  • Editor with G. Levi: Political Uses of the Past. The Recent Mediterranean Experience , Frank Cass, London, 2002.
  • Editor with Jean-Claude Passeron : Penser par cas , Enquête, Paris, éditions de l'EHESS, 2005.
  • Un momento historiográfico , Buenos Aires, Manantial, 2006.
  • Editor: Giochi di scala. La microstoria alla prova dell'esperienza , Rome, Viella, 2006.
  • Las Construcciones francesas del pasado, La escuela francesa y la historiografía del pasado , Fondo de Cultura Económica, Buenos Aires, 2002.
  • Un parcours critique. Douze essais d'histoire sociale , Paris, Galaade, 2006 (collection of articles).
  • Editor with Jean-Boutier, Jean-Claude Passeron: Qu'est-ce qu'une discipline? , Paris, Éditions de l'école des hautes études en sciences sociales, Enquête 5, 2006.
  • Editor with André Burguière : Histoire de la France , Seuil, 5 volumes, Paris 1989–1993, paperback edition 2001.

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personal data
SURNAME Revel, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Avignon