Braudel

Breen claims that I never manage to rise above the swirl of human movement (a compliment of sorts), having just declared that I "discerned clear patterns" in the complex movement of peoples and having just filled his own paragraphs with summaries of my structuring and analysis of that swirl; and then he caps it all by saying that it is the same failure for which I once criticized Braudel, which is precisely the opposite of what I actually wrote (too much structure, abstractly conceived).

Now, Voyager Bailyn, Bernard 1987

The focus on discontinuity is also the result of the current general historiographical tendency that (after and against Braudel and the Annales) privileges, in historical interpretation, "the event," understood as discontinuity and a traumatic transformation.

A Timely Re-Read on a Critique of a Particular, and Popular, Hermeneutic of Vatican II 2009

France had 40 nationwide food calamities between 1500 and 1800, more than one every decade, according to the French historian Fernand Braudel.

The Real Story of Globalization Charles C. Mann 2011

In the 13th century, an alliance of Northern European towns called the Hanseatic League created what historian Fernand Braudel called a "common civilization created by trading."

The New World Order 2010

Note 5: See Braudel, vol. II, pp. 138 – 53 on bill of exchange circuits and their closing. back

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

In a number of ways, Braudel will be looming throughout this analysis, as will Immanuel Wallerstein, who uses a global division of labor approach to capitalism, so to speak.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

Braudel raises the crucial issue of historical conjuncture, when the old gives way to the new over a span of generations.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

Note 25: Dialects of money is my phrase, but the cue comes from Braudel, ch. 7, particularly pp. 357 – 72.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

Fernand Braudel, the principal conceptual and historical stratigrapher of capitalism, uses enticing imagery to show that market life stands apart but throws out feeders that are grabbed by the tentacles of true capitalist activity occurring at a layer above the market.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

This model has cores, peripheries, semiperipheries, and an external zone, and this geographic division is inspired in part by Braudel.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008