Book, Social Role of the Historian from the Chair to the Court[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. What is the historian’s raison d’être today? Are we in the presence of an art, a craft or a technique? After all, what justifies a seemingly useless activity? Is there a price paid by society that forces the historian to define the nature of his task and the meaning of his intervention? In fact, what is the historian's connection with the public world, where the opinions we share are woven? Does knowledge of a certain period make the historian a witness in court, in cases of rights reparation? Is it up to him to be at the service of a public as well as to sell consultancy and expertise to a specific client? In this book, Olivier Dumolin presents the forms of action that the historian found, in France and in the Anglo-Saxon world, to guarantee his social usefulness – and the potential effects of his choices. Heloisa Murgel Starling