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Fernand Braudel
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French historian and leader of the Annales School
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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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 24 August 1902
- Died
- 27 November 1985
- Works
- 170
Top works
- 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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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Québec
- Active from
- 1934-03-23
- Active to
- 2006-08-18
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Toxicological Impact Studies Based on
<i>Escherichia</i>
<i>coli</i>
Bacteria in Ultrafine ZnO Nanoparticles Colloidal Medium
· 2006 · cited 1,517x
- Identification of Late-Onset Hypogonadism in Middle-Aged and Elderly Men
· 2010 · cited 1,265x
- A comparative study of LPWAN technologies for large-scale IoT deployment
· 2019 · cited 1,173x
- Topographic distance and watershed lines
· 1994 · cited 1,153x
- The Oxford classification of IgA nephropathy: rationale, clinicopathological correlations, and classification
· 2009 · cited 1,025x
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Quotes
- “[T]he entire course of French history since then has been influenced by something that happened in the eighteenth century” and asks “did France cease to be a great power not, as is usually thought, on 15 June 1815 on the field of Waterloo, but well before that, during the reign of Louis XV when the natural birth-rate was interrupted?”
- “Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history.”
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Wikidata facts
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- Photo of Fernand Braudel on The Identity of France dustjacket.jpg
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- Fernand Braudel
- date of birth
- 1902-08-24
- date of death
- 1985-11-27
- name in native language
- Fernand Braudel
- birth name
- Fernand Paul Achille Braudel
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Article
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.