French historical method

The famed Annales "school" has had a formidable and enduring influence upon the historians of the Western world. This book is both a history of the school and an analysis of its entire network of historical and methodological conceptions. The school derived its name from a distinguished French journal founded in 1929 by Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch. Mr. Stoianovich traces the ideas of its founders, of their successors, and of the historians who were inspired by their methods. The Annales school's view of history is uniquely its own, and Stoianovich's concise and challenging account of the…