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2.1 Introduction 2.1 Introduction
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2.2 The Impact of Business History 2.2 The Impact of Business History
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2.2.1 An Array of New Sources 2.2.1 An Array of New Sources
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2.2.2 The Return of the Actors 2.2.2 The Return of the Actors
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2.2.3 From Economic to Political Crises 2.2.3 From Economic to Political Crises
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2.2.4 The Dynamics of Change 2.2.4 The Dynamics of Change
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2.2.5 Society and Politics 2.2.5 Society and Politics
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2.3 The Impact of History 2.3 The Impact of History
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2.3.1 Cultural History 2.3.1 Cultural History
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2.3.2 Gender 2.3.2 Gender
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2.3.3 Social History 2.3.3 Social History
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2.3.4 From the Study of Medicine and Science to Business Practice 2.3.4 From the Study of Medicine and Science to Business Practice
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2.3.5 Between Micro‐history and Global History 2.3.5 Between Micro‐history and Global History
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2.4 Conclusions 2.4 Conclusions
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References References
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2 Business History and History
Get accessPatrick Fridenson is Professor of International Business History at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France. He previously taught at the University Paris X‐Nanterre, and has been Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo. He is the author, co‐author, or editor of several boks, including The Automobile Revolution (Chapel Hill, NC, 1982), The French Home Front, 1914–1918 (Oxford, 1992), Thomson's First Century (Jouy‐en‐Josas, 1995), Histoire des usines Renault, vol. I (Paris, 1998), and the author of many articles. He is a former President of the Business History Conference of the United States and a former member of the Executive Committee of the International Economic History Association. He is editor of the journal Entreprises et Histoire.
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Published:02 September 2009
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Abstract
Business history as a specific field was not born inside the historical profession. It first appeared in the United States at Harvard Business School, in 1927. N. S. B. Gras held the first chair in business history. Today business history has indeed become universal. For quite a while, however, and in spite of the initial support from the Annales, the value and methods of business history were questioned by many historians. At the same time, the fact that business history could be taught in departments other than history, mostly business administration and economics, meant that its practitioners could come from these very disciplines and that research and teaching in business history brought them in contact with the trends at work in the historical profession. This article assesses the results of this double process for a field that is steeped in two worlds: inside history and outside history.
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