I n 1949, Jacques Tati’s Jour de fête opened in France. The nearly silent film follows a provincial mailman making his daily rounds on his bicycle. Tati captured the reality of a French countryside ...

Since Fernand Braudel (1902-1985) was ranked as arguably the most significant historian that 20 th century had witnessed, his life and scholarly achievements should be put in perspective for the ...

“If the Nobel Prize were given to historians, it would almost certainly have been awarded to Fernand Braudel.” Thus begins a recent article by a prominent American historian, Samuel Kinser, on the ...

El reencuentro del pasado con el presente es uno de los grandes temas del historiador; la propuesta de Fernand Braudel explora, de una forma muy compleja, esta idea. La vasta investigación reunida en ...

Fernand Braudel escribió varios pequeños (de extensión) libros que trataban sus cuestiones favoritas sobre el capitalismo y el Mediterráneo. Uno de ellos es Fuera de Italia (o en el original francés, ...

El historiador francés revolucionó la historiografía del siglo XX. Vivió entre 1902 y 1985. En 1935 viajó a San Pablo para fundar la cátedra universitaria de historia, invitado con Claude Lévi-Strauss ...

Fernand Braudel’s wife, Paule, remembered sitting with him on a wintry day at a café in Dubrovnik in the 1930s, watching a boat laden with firewood slowly coming into the port. ‘Look,’ he said, ‘we ...

Iraq's destiny is tied to the future of the Middle East ...