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Patrick H. Hutton. Philippe Ariès and the Politics of French Cultural History. (Critical Perspectives on Modern Culture.) Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 2004. Pp. xxv, 244. Cloth $80.00, paper $24.95.

Any French, European, or American historian will acknowledge it: in many respects Philippe Ariès is one the most puzzling historians among those who contributed to changing the writing of history in the twentieth century. Ariès participated in a major shift in French historiography, from a socioeconomic paradigm, à la Labrousse or Braudel, to that of mentalités, ushering in the prevalent strength of representation and cultural history. In the ranks of French historians he remained, for a very long time, a maverick without any of the academic tokens required in a country where historiographical revolution came from the heights of the corporation, often from heirs of academicians (Marc Bloch's father, for example, was a leading historian of ancient Rome teaching at the Sorbonne). Failing the agregation (the competitive examination that warrants careers in French lycées and later universities), neglecting to write a doctoral dissertation, Ariès worked nearly all his life as the director of an institute of documentation on tropical fruits. He worked in a very scholarly manner but had only an amateur status until the end of the 1960s. In the mean time, he was a journalist, an editor of renowned historical collections.

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