Word: braudel
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DIED. Fernand Braudel, 83, eminent French historian and leading practitioner of the Annales school, or "new history," an approach that focuses on climate and geography, sociocultural processes and accounts of everyday life and thought, and downplays the roles of great men and political events, which he labeled "surface disturbances, crests of foam that the tides of history carry on their strong backs"; in Saint-Gervais, France. Through two masterworks, his classic The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949) and the three-volume Civilization & Capitalism 15th-18th Century (1979), and his editorship of the journal...
Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, Fernand Braudel's The Perspective of the World, and Philip Curtin's The World and the West will be studied, as well as works by Adam Smith and Max Weber, among others...