oct 29, 1940 - Fernand Braudel - total history

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French historian and founder of the Annales School, Fernand Braudel, wrote a monumental study of the Mediterranean, envisioning the Christian and Islamic cultures bordering it as part of a single history, given their common geography and economic codependence. Followed up with a global history of commerce. His work presents a model of a global, ‘total history’ offering an alternative to national history.