Combates por la historia

In a brilliant exercise of synthesis and commendable literary quality, Lucien Febvre dismantles the prevailing historiographical model of the late 18th century. From this sterile, textual erudition, based solely on political aspects, "Battles for History" became one of the fundamental references for the renewal of history. This reform effort not only improved the scientific quality of historical research but also aspired to "organize the past in relation to the present" to make history relevant to the readers of his time. *Battles for History* presents a new historiography, written from the present and inseparable from the other disciplines of the social sciences. In it, Febvre proposes relating all the diverse aspects of human life without any kind of hierarchy, understanding the harmony between the moral conditions, techniques, and spiritualities of the past. A manifesto that, brave and visionary, serves as an embryo for the approaches of such important figures as Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Josep Fontana or Eric Hobsbawm.