Fernand Braudel
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Fernand Braudel was a French historian who led the influential Annales School, an academic movement that changed how historians study the past. His approach emphasized long-term social and economic structures over individual events, which helped shape modern historical thinking by showing how vast forces—geography, trade, population—shape human societies over centuries.
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- Born
- 24 August 1902
- Died
- 27 November 1985
- Works
- 170
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- Capitalism & Material Life, 1400-1800
- Histoire économique du monde méditerranéen, 1450-1650
- la méditéranée et le monde méditéranéen à l'époque de Philippe 2
- El Mediterráneo
- La Méditerranée et le monde méditerranéen à l'époque de Philippe II
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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). He was a member of the Annales School of French historiography and social history in the 1950s and 1960s.
Plaque Fernand Braudel, 59 rue Brillat-Savarin, Paris 13 Braudel emphasized the role of large-scale socioeconomic factors in the making and writing of history. In a 2011 poll by History Today magazine, he was named the most important historian of the previous 60 years.
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1902 births1985 deaths20th-century French historians20th-century French male writersAcademic staff of the Collège de FranceAcademic staff of the University of ParisAcademic staff of the University of São PauloBurials at Père Lachaise CemeteryCorresponding fellows of the British AcademyEconomic historiansForeign members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts