The Annales School Critical Assessments in History

This collection reprints key articles written within the past 30 years on the Annales school, their journal, their influence on history, historiography and other academic fields.

Annales is the name given to a major school of Historical enquiry, after the journal Annales d'histoire economique et sociale founded in 1929 by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre. This school of historiography has been one of the most celebrated, and yet criticised, of the Twentieth century. It represented a departure from the traditional narrative chronological history and the incorporation of other disciplines, particularly geography and social anthropology.This set selects essays on the school, their journal, their self-referentiality and their influence, focusing mainly on debates in a number of academic fields from the last three decades. The central figures of Braudel, Ferro, Febvre, Bloch and Burke are well represented, as well as other exponents such as Gurevich and Wallerstein.Volume I: Histories and OverviewsVolume II: The Annales School and Historical StudiesVolume III: Fernand BraudelVolume IV: Febvre, Bloch and other Annales Historians

Volume I: Histories and Overviews 1. Histories 1. The Annales and French Historiography (1929-1972) Maurice Aymard 2. French History in the Last Twenty Years: The Rise and Fall of the Annales Paradigm Lynn Hunt 3. Histoire d'une histoire: la naissance des Annales Andre Burguiere 4. Deapprendre de l'Allemagne: les Annales et l'histoire allemande pendant l'entre-deux-guerres Peter Schottler 5. The Annales: Continuities and Discontinuities Jacques Revel 6. Braudel's Empire in Paris Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson 7. Fernand Braudel, Historian, "homme de la conjoncture", Immanuel Wallerstein 8. Von der wissenschaftlichen Innovation zur kulturellen Hegemonie? Die Geschichte der "nouvelle histoire" in Spiegel neuerer Gesamtdarstellungen Lutz Raphael 9. Censorship, Silence and Resistance: The Annales during the German Occupation of France Natalie Zemon Davis 10. Marc Bloch et Lucien Febvre face a la Allegmagne nazie Peter Schottler 11. The Present as Challenge for the Historian: The Contemporary World in the Annales E.S.C., 1929-1949 Lutz Raphael 12. Lucie Varga: A Central European Refugee in the Circle of the French Annales 13. Women and the World of the Annales Natalie Zemon Davis 2. Overviews 14. Introduction Colin Lucas 15. The Annales Historians Stuart Clark 16. Total History: The Annales School Michael Harsgor 17. The Annales in Global Context Peter Burke 18. Theory of a Practice: Historical Ennunciation and the Annales School Phillipe Carrard Volume II: The Annales School and Historical Studies 3. The Annales School and Historical Studies 19. Le Revisionnisme en histoire ou l'ecole des Annales Jacques Blot 20. The Annales School and Feminist History: Opening Dialogue with the American Stepchild Susan Mosher Stuard 21. The Annales School and Social Theory Norman Birnbaum 22. The New Annales: A Redefinition of the Late 1960's Andre Burguiere 23. The Contribution of French Historiography to the Theory of History Paul Ricoeur 24. Reflections on the Relations of Historical Geography and the Annales School of History Alan R.H. Baker 25. The Contribution of an Annaliste/structural history approach to archaeology John Bintliff 26. Is Politics Still the Backbone of History Jacques Le Goff 27. Achievements of the Annales School Robert Forster 28. Medieval Culture and Mentality according to the New French Historiography Aaron J. Gurevich 29. The Annales School and the Writing of Contemporary French History H.L. Wesseling 30. L'heure des Annales: La Terre - les hommes - le monde Krzysztof Pomian 31. Reflections on the Historical Revolution in France: The Annales School and British Social History Peter Burke 32. The Impact of the Annales School in Mediterranean Countries Maurice Aymard 33. The Annales and Medieval Studies in the Low Countries Walter Simons 34. Spanish Medieval History and the Annales: Between Franco and Marx Adeline Rucquoi 35. Le Goff, the Annales and Medieval Studies in Hungary Gabor Klaniczay 36. Les Annales vues de Moscou Youri Bessmertny 4. The History of Mentalities 37. The History of Mentalities; The New Map of Cultural History Patrick H. Hutton 38. The fate of the History of Mentalites in the Annales Andre Burguiere 39. The Gift of Theory: A Critique of the histoire des mentalites Michael A. Gismondi 40. Strengths and Weaknesses of the History of Mentalities Peter Burke 41. Intellectual History and the History of Mentalites Roger Chartier 5.Nous les Annales: The Annales