Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 3 by Fernand Braudel

Braudel had started archival research on his doctorate on the Mediterranean when he fell under the influence of the Annales School around 1938. The two had booked passage on the same ship. However, the journey was as significant as arriving at his destination on his way, he met Lucien Febvre, who was the co-founder of the influential Annales journal. In 1937, Braudel returned to Paris from Brazil. Braudel later said that the time in Brazil was the 'greatest period of his life.' The result was formation of the new University of São Paulo. São Paulo still lacked a university, however, and in 1934 francophile Julio de Mesquita Filho invited anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss and Braudel to help establish one. īy 1900, the French solidified their cultural influence in Brazil through the establishment of the Brazilian Academy of Fine Arts. From 1932 to 1935 he taught in the Paris lycées (secondary schools or high schools) of Pasteur, Condorcet, and Henri-IV. During this time, Braudel began his doctoral thesis on the foreign policy of King Philip II of Spain. While teaching at the University of Algiers between 19, he became fascinated by the Mediterranean Sea and wrote several papers on the Spanish presence in Algeria in the 16th century. Braudel was educated at the Lycée Voltaire and the Sorbonne, where at the age of 20 he was awarded an agrégé in history. Braudel also studied a good deal of Latin and a little Greek. His father, who was a natural mathematician, aided him in his studies. At the age of 7, his family moved to Paris. Biography īraudel was born in Luméville-en-Ornois (as of 1943, merged with and part of Gondrecourt-le-Château), in the département of the Meuse, France. He can also be considered one of the precursors of world-systems theory. Plaque Fernand Braudel, 59 rue Brillat-Savarin, Paris 13īraudel emphasized the role of large-scale socioeconomic factors in the making and writing of history.

Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 3 by Fernand Braudel