Marc Bloch, the historian France just buried in the Panthéon, reinvented how we study the past
Total Historian
Marc Bloch fought in both world wars, co-founded the Annales journal, and was executed by the Gestapo in 1944; in June he became the first historian inducted into the Panthéon. Peter Schöttler's new intellectual biography traces how Bloch turned history away from kings and nations toward collective mentalities, comparison across societies, and the material foundations of everyday life.
There is no homo geographicus any more than there is a homo economicus.