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For almost 100 years, the Annales School has attracted the attention of scholars around the globe. A narrative of its origins and development has simultaneously emerged: pre-history, or intellectual formation, between 1900 and 1929; an era of realization, from 1929 until 1946 and culmination in international reception thereafter. Historians and their colleagues across the humanities helped raise this tide, but while each has their interest, attention here will direct itself towards an overview of Annalistes" methodological proposals in order to understand the range and depth of their techniques. Readers in search of an exhaustive account of all Annales historians' methodologies, or a general history of the school, which other scholars have already attempted, will find this disappointing. But it provides a synopsis of how a methodological tradition came to exist, in the process paying attention to the way in which Annalistes projected their own version of their history.

DOI: 10.1057/9781137294982_2

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