Word: braudel
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...headline, "A Matter of Breadth versus Depth", and to do so in general terms. Where historians are concerned, breadth and depth are not antithetical concepts. Among the social sciences, history is that discipline whose practitioners most need to combine broad and specific knowledge. The great historians (Marc Bloch, Fernand Braudel, to speak only of the dead) created novel and lasting interpretations by combining profound knowledge of particular topics with a wide factual basis and broad conceptualization. This view of history is, I submit, well worth espousing; and is not an ignoble aspiration for a History Department. Angeliki Laiou Chairman, History...
Boorstin surveys the world through both telescope and microscope. His narrative zooms from panoramic vistas to richly textured details. Only the great French historian Femand Braudel has so well spliced together the grand sweep of history with snapshots of particular events, as in his series on The Structures of Everyday Life...