Braudel
Americannoun
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But, what happens if we look at changes over a really long interval, one lasting centuries or even millennia, what the great historian Fernand Braudel called the longue durée?
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2021
As Ferdinand Braudel notes in The Structure of Everyday Life, around the beginning of the 18th century, Louis XIV forbade his children to eat with the forks that their tutor had encouraged them to use.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2012
As dawn breaks, the film evokes its spirit guides — philosopher-historians like Sartre, Braudel and Péguy; writers like Bataille, Rimbaud and Faulkner; filmmakers like Hitchcock, Guitry and Eisenstein.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2011
France had 40 nationwide food calamities between 1500 and 1800, more than one every decade, according to the French historian Fernand Braudel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2011
London, the historian Fernand Braudel tells us, held public executions eight times a year at Tyburn, just north of Hyde Park.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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