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Fernand Braudel ( August 24 1902 - November 27 1985) was a historian who revolutionized the 20th century study of the discipline by considering the effects of economics and geography on global history, a prominent member of the Annales School of historiography, who concentrated on meticulous socia scientific historical analysis.He was born in the département of the Meuse. In 1923 he went to Algeria, then a French colony, to teach history. Returning to France in 19321932 is the leap year starting on Friday. see link for calendar) Events January-February January 3 British arrest and intern Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel January 8 In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorcees Jan, he worked as a high school teacher and met Lucien FebvreLucien Febvre ( Nancy, 1878 Saint-Amour, Jura, 1956) was a French historian best known for the role he played in establishing the Annales School of history. Febvre was influenced early on by Vidal de la Blanche during his time at the Ecole Normale Superie, who was to have a great influence on his work. In 1939Events January-June January 2 End of term for Frank Finley Merriam, 28th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Culbert Levy Olson. January 24 Earthquake kills 30. 000 in Chile about 50. 000 sq mi razed January 26 Falangists take Barcelona January 26, he joined the army but was captured in 1940Events January-February January 5 FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time. January 6 World War II: Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germans in the Poznan, Warthegau. January 12 World War II: Russia bombs cities in Finland. February 2 F and became a prisoner of warGeneva Convention Definition A prisoner of war (POW is a soldier who is imprisoned by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The laws apply from the moment a prisoner is captured until he is released or repatriated. One of the main in GermanyThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east, in a camp near LübeckLubeck (population ( 2001): 215,330) is the second largets city in Schleswig-Holstein, in northern Germany. It was a member of the Hanseatic League and is on UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites. Lubeck is situated at the Trave river. The old part of the, where, working from memory, he put together his great work La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen a l'époque de Philippe II. After the war he worked with Febvre in a new college, founded separately from the SorbonneLa Sorbonne was the name of the former University of Paris in Paris, France, one among the most ancient in Europe. History It was founded in 1257 by Robert de Sorbon, after whom it is named. It is also the name of its main campus in the 5th arrondissement, dedicated to social and economic history.
In 1962 he wrote A History of Civilizations to be the basis for a history course, but its rejection of the traditional event-based narrative was too radical for the French ministry of education, who rejected it.
His most famous work is the three-volume Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century , which first appeared in 1979. It is a broad-brush history of the pre-industrial modern world, focusing on how people made economies work.
Braudel has been considered one of the greatest of those modern historians who have emphasised the role of large scale socio-economic factors in the making and telling of history.
SUNY Binghamton in New York has a "Fernand Braudel Center", and there is a Instituto Fernand Braudel de Economia Mundial in São Paulo.
