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Fernand Paul Achille Braudel (French: [fɛʁnɑ̃ bʁodɛl]; 24 August 1902 – 27 November 1985) was a French historian. His scholarship focused on three main projects: The Mediterranean (1923–49, then 1949–66), Civilization and Capitalism (1955–79), and the unfinished Identity of France (1970–85).
Fernand Braudel was a French historian and author of several major works that traversed borders and centuries and introduced a new conception of historical time. As leader of the post-World War II Annales school, Braudel became one of the most important historians of the 20th century.
Aug 8, 2016 · Fernand Braudel’s The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949) deserves its reputation as a landmark of historical scholarship.
Fernand Braudel. (1902—1985) Quick Reference. (1902–85) Frenchhistorian, best known as a leading light of the Annales School, and from his elevation to the Collège de France in 1949 until his death one of the most influential historians in France.
May 14, 2018 · Braudel, Fernand (1902–85) A leading member of the Annales School of French history, best known for his magnum opus The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949), although his Capitalism and Material Life, 1400–1800 (1967) is more accessible to sociologists.
Fernand Braudel By Autumn Buckridge From peasant roots in the countryside of eastern France to one of the most preeminent historians of the 20th century, Braudel’s life story gives context for the evolution of 20th century historical thought.
Fernand Braudel, (born Aug. 24, 1902, Luméville, France—died Nov. 28, 1985, Haute-Savoie), French historian and educator. While a prisoner of the Germans during World War II, Braudel wrote from memory his thesis on the history of the Mediterranean region in the 16th century, later published as The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in ...
Jan 1, 2017 · One of the foremost social and economic historians of the 20th century, Fernand Braudel combined a perceptive grasp of historical interconnections, an exceptional skill of synthesis and an evocative, even ‘poetic’ style.
In his monumental Civilisa-tion Matérielle, Economie, et Capitalisme, completed in late 1979 and published in France earlier this year, Braudel describes to-day's capitalism in terms of the big banks, big financiers, and multinational corporations that dominate Western economies; but its evolution, he argues, began centuries before the Indus-tri...
Fernand Braudel's recent book contains many revisions of judgment concerning the economic history of the centuries it treats, and also a way of handling space and time that gives the volume theoretical as well as historical interest.' In his title, "the Mediterranean" refers to the region as well as to the sea.
