Fernand Braudel

Thinkers1902 to 1985Historian

Works

  • La Méditerranée et le monde méditerranéen à l'époque de Philippe II (The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II), 1949

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A historian of the Annales school. His study of the sixteenth-century Mediterranean sorts historical time into three speeds: the near-motionless time of geography, the slow cycles of economies and societies, and the fast surface of events and individuals.

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