Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Braudel, Fernand
• Wallerstein, Immanuel

Titel

History and the Social Sciences: The Longue Durée

Ist Teil von

• Review - Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations, 2009, Vol.32 (2), p.171-203

Ort / Verlag

Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This is a new translation of Braudel's classic article on the longue durée, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its original publication. The article lays out Braudel's concept of the multiplicity of social times and their respective utilities in the analysis of historical phenomena. It specifically criticizes the emphasis on short-term episodic and idiographic history (l'histoire événementielle) on the one hand and the emphasis on the use of eternal concepts in the social sciences, what he calls the très longue durée. He explicates the necessity of analyzing the longue durée (long, but not eternal), as well as what he calls la conjoncture, the cyclical movements within the longue durée.