I feel I have a reasonable sense of the contribution made by the French Annales school in the interwar period and its postwar reception but am certainly not an expert. As such I find it very hard to recommend an introduction for people who are unfamiliar with it - "type 'Annales' into JSTOR and read the first hundred results" seems unreasonably burdensome. If you had to recommend either a single monograph or no more than three articles to introduce someone to the history, impact, and key insights of the Annales school what would they be? And to make it trickier, since I know who I usually have to recommend things to, without recommending anything in French.
Hello,
First, thank you for the excellent question about the Annales School. History is important.
The three areas proposed to study here in the US are not exact, but rather general. 1) A key document or set of documents which to study are the events which led to the Civil War of 1861 to 1865. For instance, many people do not know the Panic of 1857 initially spurred the war. 2) Any documents describing the formation of the Federal Reserve. The Creature from Jekyll Island is a good place to start. 3) The study of popular music from the 1960s to the 1970s. Why do many consider this music to be of higher quality than the music of today? Each example listed is looking at patterns of demographics and culture, not necessarily historical figures.
I hope I am on the right track. Thank you!
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