《Is Politics Still the Backbone of History》.pdf

Is Politics Still the Backbone of History? Author(s): Jacques Le Goff Source: Daedalus, Vol. 100, No. 1, Historical Studies Today (Winter, 1971), pp. 1-19 Published by: The MIT Press on behalf of American Academy of Arts Sciences Stable URL: /stable. Accessed: 20/09/2011 01:09 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms Conditions of Use, available at . /page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@. The MIT Press and American Academy of Arts Sciences are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Daedalus. LE GOFF JACQUES Is Politics Still the Backbone of History? To a historian trained in what, rightly or wrongly, has been called the Annales school, the title of this essay may in itself seem The Annales historian was on the idea that strange. brought up was obsolete and out of date. Marc Bloch and political history Lucien Febvre had said so over and over even in again. They voked the great precursors of modern history. Voltaire, in the Essai sur les Moeurs et Yesprit des nations, wrote: For the last fourteen hundred years, the only Gauls, apparently, have b