Practice question · True or false
The Annales school, founded in 1929, is chiefly associated with a return to diplomatic and political narrative.
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- Ask what Bloch and Febvre were reacting against.
- Their interest was in economies, societies, mentalities and the long term.
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False
Why
False: that is what they were reacting against. Annales displaced the primacy of events, treaties and great men in favour of economic structures, social relations, collective mentalities and the longue durée. Braudel’s Mediterranean, in which a whole geography moves more slowly than any king, is the programme carried to its limit.
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