Introduction: Historians and Modernity
"A la Table de Magny": Men of Letters and Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Ordering Time: The Problem of French Chronology
God and the Historian: Sainte-Beuve's Port-Royal
Lost Worlds: Lucien Febvre and the Alien Past
Private Lives and Historical Knowledge
Nobles as Signifiers: Making Sense of a Class Structure
An Alternative Path to Rural History
Conclusion: On the Politics of Social History.