Name: On History
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Author: Fernand Braudel
ISBN: 9780226071510

Type

Physical Book

Author

Fernand Braudel

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press

Year

1982

Language

English

Pages

236

Format

Paperback

Weight

ISBN

0226071510

ISBN13

9780226071510

Edition No.

2014

Synopsis "On History "

The first English translation of Ecrits sur l'histoire—a collection of essays written over a twenty-year period following publication of Braudel's masterwork, La, Méditerranée—On History sets forth Braudel's reflections on the intellectual framework of his historical studies. Braudel calls on the historian to penetrate beneath the surface of political events to uncover and measure the forces shaping collective existence. Cycles of production, wages and prices, grids of communication and trade, fluctuations and climate, demographic trends, popular beliefs—all of these phenomena are proper subjects of the historian's investigations. It is only through study of the longue durée, Braudel argues, that one can discern structure, the supports and obstacles, the limits and his experience cannot escape."The great French historian Fernand Braudel has done what only giants can: he has made Western man confront the problem of time—individual time, historical time, relative time, real time. . . . Braudel, more than any other historian, has wrestled with man's conception of time over time. . . What a magnificent fight he has fought."—Virginia Quarterly Review

Fernand Braudel

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Fernand Braudel was a fundamental French historian in the development of the so-called "longue durée history", linked to the Annales School. His most influential work is The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (La Méditerranée, 1949), an innovative synthesis that reformulated traditional historical narrative. Also notable are The Perspective of the World (1979), The Structures of Everyday Life (1979), and The Wheels of Commerce (1985), all authored by him. His approach combines economic history, geography, sociology, and culture, consolidating a new interpretative paradigm.

His works fall into the genre of historical essay, with a strong interdisciplinary component. Braudel was a member of the French Academy and received various recognitions throughout his career, though not literary awards per se. His influence remains key in contemporary historiography for his analysis of social structures beyond specific events.

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