French Historiography and Oskar Halecki

• Authors: Anna Brzezińska

Abstracts

EN

Oskar Halecki’s reception in French historiography is one of the interesting examples of diffi-culties in understanding Polish historical thought in France. As one of the leading authors of the concept of East‑Central Europe in world historiography, a descendant of the Viennese aristoc-racy and an ambassador of Polish humanities in the League of Nations Committee on Intellec-tual Cooperation, he promoted the history of the countries of the region, considering their independent of Russia cultural specificity, deeply connected with the values of the Christian Europe. Meanwhile, after the Second World War, the socio‑economically oriented historiogra-phy of “Annales” was gaining more and more popularity in Paris – and in Warsaw itself ...

Keywords

EN

Oskar Halecki; Polish historiography; French historiography; Idea of East Central Europe; history of Poland

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Historyka Studia Metodologiczne
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 51
• Issue: Spec. iss.
• Pages: 93-105

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Anna Brzezińska

• University of Lodz, Łódź

• https://orcid.org/0000000251144034

Identifiers

DOI

10.24425/hsm.2021.138880

Biblioteka Nauki

20311962