1. The Annals School of History
In this essay I will examine the variety of history known as the Annales school of history. ... In order to see this history it rejected the traditional event driven history. ... It focused on what some would call history channel history. ... First is the attempt to grasp the totality, and the vital cohesion, of any historical period or society, the conviction that history is what it is through the human life which animates it, the almost Platonic conception of man as the microcosm of the world. ... The best example of a scholarly work in the Annales tradition is Fernand Braudels work The Medi...
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