Fernand Braudel
French historian and leader of the Annales School · France · Writers · Lived 1902 to 1985 · aged 83
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Something wrong?He rewrote how history gets told - not kings and battles, but centuries-long currents of trade, climate, and daily bread. A 2011 poll named him the most important historian of the previous sixty years.
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Fernand Paul Achille Braudel was born on 24 August 1902 and died on 27 November 1985. His scholarship revolved around three massive projects: The Mediterranean, which occupied him from 1923 to 1966; Civilization and Capitalism, from 1955 to 1979; and Identity of France, left unfinished at his death after fifteen years of work. A central figure in the Annales School during the 1950s and 1960s, he pushed historians to track large-scale socioeconomic forces - the slow grind of geography, commerce, population - rather than the deeds of great men. The method stuck.
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