Jacques Godechot

Jacques Léon Godechot (1907–1989) was a French historian of the French revolution, and a pioneer of Atlantic history.[1]

As a frequent and varied contributor to the Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française, he acted as "a mediator, an intermediary between readers of the journal and Anglo-Saxon and Italian historiography of the Revolution".[2] His emphasis on the international dimension of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century revolutions was crystallized in the concepts of Atlantic history and 'occidental revolution'. In 1955 Godechot collaborated with the Yale historian Robert Roswell Palmer to present a joint paper on 'the problem of Atlantic history' at the 10th International Congress of Historical Sciences in Rome.[3]

Works

References

  1. Emmet Kennedy, 'Jacques Godechot', in Philip Daileader & Philip Whalen, eds., French Historians 1900-2000: New Historical Writing in Twentieth-Century France, 306-316
  2. Bernard Gainot, La contribution de Jacques Godechot aux Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française, Annales Historiques de la Révolution Française 353 (July–September 2008), pp.113-128
  3. William O'Reilly, 'Genealogies of Atlantic History', Atlantic Studies 1:1 (2004), 66 — 84