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Claire Lemercier - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • La gloire de l'industrie, XVIIe–XIXe siècle: Faire de l'histoire avec Gérard Gayot [Splendors of Industry, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries: A Tribute to Gérard Gayot]. Edited by Maitte Corine, Minard Philippe, and de Oliveira Matthieu. Rennes: Pr
    Business History Review, 2013
    Co-Authors: Claire Lemercier
    Abstract:

    Gerard Gayot (1941–2009) was a French historian who embodied the best of the tradition of the Annales School, while also giving it a new turn. Along with his colleague Jean-Pierre Hirsch, also active in the University of Lille, he put enormous energy and enthusiasm into bridging many gaps—between early modern and modern history, as his questions on industrialization and the birth of capitalism spanned the whole 1700–1900 period; between the history of fi rms, of workers, of capitalists, and that of social movements, technologies and gestures, and cultural attitudes; and between French, Belgian, German, Italian, and other literatures, especially as the editor, with Giovanni Luigi Fontana, of the monumental volume Wool: Products and Markets (13th–20th Century) (2004). His premature death hit the discipline hard. Hence, this edited volume gathers papers by his former doctoral students and other colleagues for whom he opened new avenues of research (...).

  • La gloire de l'industrie, XVIIe–XIXe siècle: Faire de l'histoire avec Gérard Gayot [Splendors of Industry, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries: A Tribute to Gérard Gayot]
    Business History Review, 2013
    Co-Authors: Claire Lemercier
    Abstract:

    Gérard Gayot (1941–2009) was a French historian who embodied the best of the tradition of the Annales School, while also giving it a new turn. Along with his colleague Jean-Pierre Hirsch, also active in the University of Lille, he put enormous energy and enthusiasm into bridging many gaps—between early modern and modern history, as his questions on industrialization and the birth of capitalism spanned the whole 1700–1900 period; between the history of fi rms, of workers, of capitalists, and that of social movements, technologies and gestures, and cultural attitudes; and between French, Belgian, German, Italian, and other literatures, especially as the editor, with Giovanni Luigi Fontana, of the monumental volume Wool: Products and Markets (13th–20th Century) (2004). His premature death hit the discipline hard. Hence, this edited volume gathers papers by his former doctoral students and other colleagues for whom he opened new avenues of research (...).

Immanuel Wallerstein - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The time of space and the space of time: the future of social science
    Political Geography, 1998
    Co-Authors: Immanuel Wallerstein
    Abstract:

    Abstract Time and space are irremediably locked together and constitute a single dimension, TimeSpace. Social science, as invented between 1850 and 1914, has involved limited interpretations of TimeSpace emphasizing either eternal TimeSpaces (economics, sociology, political science) or episodic geopolitical TimeSpaces (history, anthropology, Oriental studies). The difficulty for establishing a successful discipline of geography was that it straddled these two kinds of TimeSpace. Social science neglected three other types of TimeSpace that were potentially subversive. The Annales School of history emphasized cyclic-ideological TimeSpace and structural TimeSpace which transcend the old choice between the idiographic and nomothetic through the study of historical systems. Historical systems are defined by structural TimeSpace and function through cyclico-ideological TimeSpace. Between structural TimeSpaces there is transformational TimeSpace and our historical social system is reaching such a moment of bifurcation. Intellectually, social science needs refashioning into a tool of this transformation and, politically, we have to dare to develop a sober utopia and to seek to construct it.

Richard Vinen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Poisoned Madeleine: The Autobiographical Turn in Historical Writing
    Journal of Contemporary History, 2011
    Co-Authors: Richard Vinen
    Abstract:

    This article examines the recent fashion for autobiographical writing among historians. It argues that this fashion goes with a rehabilitation of contemporary history, which was sometimes regarded with disdain during the time in the mid-1960s when approaches associated with the Annales School seemed most influential. Autobiographies by historians have attracted particular attention in France and all such works are sometimes labelled with the term first coined by Pierre Nora: ego-histoire. However, this article argues that the historians brought together by Nora (all French, mostly born between 1917 and 1930 and heavily influenced by the political upheavals of the period 1940 to 1962) were rather different from those historians (mostly from a younger generation) who have been drawn to autobiographical writing in the Anglo-American world. It is finally suggested that there is now something of a reaction against autobiographical writing by a younger generation of historians who argue that, even when writing ...

Allan Megill - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Coherence and Incoherence in Historical Studies: From the Annales School to the New Cultural History
    New Literary History, 2004
    Co-Authors: Allan Megill
    Abstract:

    In the mid-twentieth century the prominent Annales School historians Lucien Febvre and Fernand Braudel advocated a unified, "total" history. Their efforts in this direction did not meet with success, and have been superseded by the efforts of some practitioners of "social" and "new cultural" history to impose one or another "paradigm" on historical research and writing. Such efforts are misguided. Typically, if they are not simply cynical grabs for academic power, they arise from a fundamental misunderstanding of what historical research ought to offer—not blithe certainty, but an understanding of complexity and contingency in human life.

Kate Narev - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • How have the Annales tenets evolved since the School's inception in 1929?
    Teaching history, 2012
    Co-Authors: Kate Narev
    Abstract:

    The founders of the Annales School, Bloch and Febvre, established some clear initial tenets. They aspired to a total history, encompassing social and economic history, and incorporating a wide range of other social sciences. Their vision was adhered to and expanded by the work of Braudel and others of the second generation. In the third generation, however, the School began to fracture. The initial tenets remained relevant while concepts of mentalites and a fashion for quantification took centre stage. The fourth generation of Annales history saw a greater fragmentation in the School, a new focus on cultures, and a fading, but present, connection to the original tenets. It has left some historians wondering whether a unified concept of the discipline still exists.

  • how have the Annales tenets evolved since the School s inception in 1929
    Teaching history, 2012
    Co-Authors: Kate Narev
    Abstract:

    The founders of the Annales School, Bloch and Febvre, established some clear initial tenets. They aspired to a total history, encompassing social and economic history, and incorporating a wide range of other social sciences. Their vision was adhered to and expanded by the work of Braudel and others of the second generation. In the third generation, however, the School began to fracture. The initial tenets remained relevant while concepts of mentalites and a fashion for quantification took centre stage. The fourth generation of Annales history saw a greater fragmentation in the School, a new focus on cultures, and a fading, but present, connection to the original tenets. It has left some historians wondering whether a unified concept of the discipline still exists.