Yet its real value is far more permanent. This marvelous survey of world history, the last of his books to be translated into English, was originally intended for French "sixth-formers."
Traditionalists attacked the new stress on the social sciences and eventually triumphed, but Braudel was firmly committed to such changes. In the late 1950s, when the Annales approach was widely accepted in French universities, a major reform introduced the study of "the main contemporary civilizations" into the final year of secondary schools. A leading member of the Annales school, he rejected a narrow focus on Western warfare, diplomacy, and power politics, and opened up economic and social history to influences from anthropology, sociology, geography, psychology, and linguistics. A history of civilizations - Civilizations outside Europe - European civilizationsįernand Braudel was one of the greatest historians of the twentieth century.
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