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Much has been written, and even more said privately, about the plight of the American student of European history: the unpublished sources of European archives are far away; for financial, professional, or family reasons, frequent trips to Europe are not easy to arrange; and adjustment to local conditions, from the peculiarities of archival catalogues to the vagaries of European administration, can consume a large part of an academic year abroad.1
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See D. Pinkney, “The Dilemma of the American Historian of Modern France,” French Historical Studies, I (1958), 11–25.
See W. O. Aydelotte, “Quantification in History,” American Historical Review, LXXI, No. 3 (April, 1966), 803–825.
See Keith Thomas, “The Tools and the Job,” Times Literary Supplement (April 7, 1966), 275–276
and the entire series entitled “New Ways in History” (April 7, July 28, September 8, 1966).
See E. LeRoy Ladurie, “From Waterloo to Colyton,” Times Literary Supplement (September 8, 1966), 791–796.
E. A. Wrigley, ed., An Introduction to English Historical Demography (New York, 1966), pp. 101–102.
See Alfred Cobban, A Social Interpretation of the French Revolution (Cambridge, 1964).
See Bruce Mazlish, “Inside the Whale,” Times Literary Supplement (July 28, 1966), 667–669
W. L. Langer, “The Next Assignment,” American Historical Review, LXIII, No. 2 (January, 1958), pp. 283–304.
See Georges Duby and Robert Mandrou, A History of French Civilization (New York, 1964), pp. 219ff.
R. Mandrou, Introduction à la France moderne (1500–1640): Essai de psychologie historique (Paris, 1961).
See Peter Mathias, “The Social Structure in the Eighteenth Century: A Calculation by Joseph Massie,” Economic History Review, 2nd series, X (1957), 30–45.
E. LeRoy Ladurie, Les Paysans de Languedoc (Paris, 1966).
Matthew S. Anderson, Europe in the Eighteenth Century, 1713–1783 (New York, 1961).
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Robert, Forster, E. (1969). Introduction. In: Forster, R., Forster, E. (eds) European Society in the Eighteenth Century. The Documentary History of Western Civilization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00386-0_1
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