La mondialisation de la Révolution française (vers 1930-1960) : origines et eclipse d'un paradigme historiographique
- Submitting institution
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University of Durham
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 121720
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1017/ahss.2020.10
- Title of journal
- Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales.
- Article number
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- First page
- 297
- Volume
- 74
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 03952649
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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https://doi.org/10.1017/ahss.2020.10
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- This article sketches an alternative narrative for the origins of global historiography on the French Revolution. It argues that French historians first took a 'global turn' in the 1930s, with the founding of the Institut International de l'Histoire de la Révolution Française. Its founders, Philippe Sagnac and Boris Mirkine-Guétzevitch, were committed to making revolutionary historiography an instrument for promoting internationalism in an age of diplomatic insecurity. The evolution and ultimate failure of the IIHRF raises intriguing questions about the changing significance of 1789 as a political landmark and the reshaping of historical writing at the dawn of the Cold War.