Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gemelli, Giuliana

Titel

U.S. Foundations and Braudel's Institution Building

Ist Teil von

• Review - Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations, 2001-01, Vol.24 (1), p.49-76

Ort / Verlag

Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University

Erscheinungsjahr

2001

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The article analyzes Fernand Braudel's institution building by developing two arguments: the role of historical conjuncture in shaping biographical time and the effects of cross-fertilization policies between the United States and Europe, particularly France and Italy, between the 1950's and 1970's. The first argument is based on the assumption that actors' freedom and competence depend on their momentum, but also on the multiplicity of worlds to which their biographical spheres gave them access. The second argument is based on the assumption that the concept of Americanization is a too narrow perspective to analyze the complex dynamics of Braudel's "défi latin" vis-à-vis American "vision of modernity," both in its historical genealogy and strategic development. This system of French-American cultural relations was not the product of impersonal entities; it was the result of the dynamic interactions of a multiplicity of individual and institutional actors, on both sides of the Atlantic.