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Population and Pedagogy in France

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2017

Charles Tilly
Charles Tilly*
Affiliation:
Center for Research on Social Organization of the University of Michigan
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Extract

Disguised as demographic analyst and historiographical innovator, Philippe Ariès launched his own clandestine attack on modernism twenty-five years ago. As a demographic analyst, he carried on a series of perceptive interpretations of typical French populations and their evolution from the eighteenth century onward: Parisians, miners of the Northeast, villagers of Touraine, Bretons, southerners, dwellers in the Alps all paraded past his eyepiece. As an historiographical innovator, he provided a way of inserting demographic material directly into history. In 1946, that was a daring thing to do. Ariès also showed how family portraits, wardrobes, textbooks and other antiquarian paraphernalia, long condemned to supply the comic relief for serious history, could become evidence of the deepest, longest transformations of social life.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , Summer 1973 , pp. 113 - 128
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Copyright © 1973 by New York University 

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