This book provides a critical history of the movement associated with the journal
Annales, from its foundation in 1929 to the present. Burke argues that this movement has been the single most important force in the development of what is sometimes called the 'new history'.
Burke distinguishes three main generations in the development of theAnnales School. The first generation included Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch, who fought against the old historical establishment and founded the journalAnnales. The second generation was dominated by Braudel, whose magnificent work on the Mediterranean has became a modern classic. The third generation includes well-known contemporary historians such as Duby, Le Goff and Le Roy Ladurie.
Wide-ranging and yet concise, this is an accessible examination of one of the most important historical movements of the twentieth century.
Preface.
1. Overture: The Old Historiographical Regime and its Critics.
2. The Founders.
3. The Age of Braudel.
4. The Third Generation.
5. Epilogue: The Annales in Global Perspective.
Glossary.
Bibliography.
Index.
