Abstract:ABSTIWCT In the first part of my paper I will try to reconstruct a series of attempts at dialogue between history and the social sciences made by historians connected with the "Annales" (Marc Bloch, Ernest Labrousse, Giovanni Levi, Bernard Lepetit). What these attempts have in common is the idea that in history, as in the natural sciences, it is to some extent possible to carry out forms of experimentation on the sources, and that the inclusion of history among the human sciences, and even the scientific futu… Show more
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