Roland Mousnier (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Roland mile Mousnier (September 7, 1907-February 8, 1993) was a French historian of the early modern period in France and of the comparative studies of different civilizations.Mousnier was born in Paris and received his education at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. Between 1932 and 1947, Mousnier worked as a school teacher in Rouen and Paris. During the Second World War, Mousnier was a member of the French Resistance. After 1945, Mousnier served as a professor at Strasbourg University (1947-1955) and at the Sorbonne (1955-1977). Keenly interested in social history, Mousnier went to the United States to learn sociology and anthropology. In 1934, Mousnier married Jeanne Lecacheur.Mousnier was one of the few post-war French historians who was a detractor of both the Annales School and Marxist views of history.