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Braudel also studied a good deal of Latin and a little Greek. He was educated at the Lyce Voltaire and the Sorbonne, where, at the age of 20, he was awarded an agrg in history. While teaching at the University of Algiers between 1923 and 1932, he became fascinated by the Mediterranean Sea and wrote several papers on the Spanish presence in Algeria in the 16th century. During that time, Braudel began his doctoral thesis on the foreign policy of King Philip II of Spain. From 1932 to 1935 he taught in the Paris lyces (secondary schools) of Pasteur, Condorcet and Henri-IV.[3]

In 1937, Braudel returned to Paris from Brazil. On his way, he met Lucien Febvre, who was the co-founder of the influential Annales journal. Both had booked passage on the same ship.[3] Braudel had started archival research on his doctorate on the Mediterranean when he fell under the influence of the Annales School around 1938. Also around that time he entered the cole pratique des hautes tudes as an instructor in history.[3] He worked with Febvre, who would later read the early versions of Braudel's magnum opus and provide him with editorial advice.

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At the outbreak of war in 1939, he was called up for military service and in 1940 was taken prisoner by the Germans.[3] He was held at a prisoner-of-war camp in Mainz from 1940 to 1942 before he was transferred to another near Lbeck, where he remained for the rest of the war. Braudel drafted his great work La Mditerrane et le Monde Mditerranen l'poque de Philippe II (The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II) without access to his books or notes and relied only on his prodigious memory and a local library.[3]

His first book, La Mditerrane et le Monde Mditerranen l'Epoque de Philippe II (1949) (The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II) was his most influential and has been described as a "watershed".[10]

For Braudel there is no single Mediterranean Sea. There are many seas, indeed a "vast, complex expanse" within which men operate. Life is conducted on the Mediterranean: people travel, fish, fight wars, and drown in its various contexts, and the sea articulates with the plains and islands. Life on the plains is diverse and complex; the poorer south is affected by religious diversity (Catholicism and Islam), as well as by intrusions, both cultural and economic, from the north. In other words, the Mediterranean cannot be understood independently from what is exterior to it. Any rigid adherence to boundaries falsifies the situation.

The first level of time, geographical time, is that of the environment, with its slow, almost imperceptible change, its repetition and cycles. Such change may be slow, but it is irresistible. The second level of time comprises long-term social, economic, and cultural history, where Braudel discusses the Mediterranean economy, social groupings, empires and civilizations. Change at that level is much more rapid than that of the environment. Braudel looks at two or three centuries to spot a particular pattern such as the rise and fall of various aristocracies. The third level of time is that of events (histoire vnementielle). This is the history of individuals with names. That, for Braudel, is the time of surfaces and deceptive effects. It is the time of the courte dure proper and the focus of Part 3 of The Mediterranean, which treats of "events, politics and people."

Braudel's Mediterranean is centered on the sea, but just as importantly, it is also the desert and the mountains. The desert creates a nomadic form of social organization where the whole community moves; mountain life is sedentary. Transhumance the movement from the mountain to the plain or vice versa in a given season is also a persistent part of Mediterranean existence.

Braudel's vast panoramic view used insights from other social sciences, employed the concept of the longue dure, and downplayed the importance of specific events. It was widely admired, but most historians did not try to replicate it and instead focused on their specialized monographs. The book firmly launched the study of the Mediterranean and dramatically raised the worldwide profile of the Annales School.

This reissue of Fernand Braudel's great work brings the original back in print and looks at the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixteenth century.

The focus of Fernand Braudel's work is the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixteenth century, but Braudel ranges back in history to the world of Odysseus and forward to our time, moving out from the Mediterranean area to the New World and other destinations of Mediterranean traders. Braudel's scope embraces the natural world and material life, economics, demography, politics, and diplomacy.

Historian, folklorist, and human ecologist Fernand Braudel was the first Mediterraneanist to define the area in great detail and in many aspects as a diverse but unified world region.

The Mediterranean Studies Section of the American Folklore Society invites submissions for the Fernand Braudel Prize for an Outstanding Student Research Paper in Mediterranean folklore with an honorarium of $500.

When he came to write the work in mind, it was still in the manner of a novelist rather than of a historian proper. Called up for military service during the Munich Crisis, he was in the field when France fell to Nazi Germany and was taken captive. Imprisoned first in Mainz, then at Oflag XC in Lbeck, he discovered in his dreams of the Mediterranean a means of shutting out the soul-destroying news that filtered through the wire fence and of rationalising the dizzying whirl of war and politics to which he had fallen victim. Scribbling his thoughts in countless school notebooks that were smuggled out to Febvre, he wrote furiously, as a novelist might write, without access to archives or libraries, but carried along by the great sweep of his story and sustained by the driving force of his own cathartic eloquence.

And yet, and this is the other legacy which Braudel left; the ideas put forward by this illustrious historian have hardly aged at all. As a historian and visionary, Braudel was able to combine a wealth of different approaches (economic, psychological, social, political, etc.) that allow us to understand today what the Mediterranean world has in store for us.

Braudel himself identified a multiplicity of worlds: the world of the plains (which are relatively uncultivated), the world of the hills (where wine or olives are cultivated and produced, characteristic of Mediterranean countries), and finally the world of the mountains (a landlocked world which provides arms).

Le Temps du Monde is also concerned with world economies and with the sequence of dominant powers, but it begins, as one might have expected Braudel to begin, with the Mediterranean. According to him, it was 15th-century Venice which first achieved economic hegemony. Venice was followed by Antwerp, and Antwerp by Genoa, whose bankers controlled the economic destinies of Europe for two generations in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Fourth in sequence came the Dutch Republic, or more exactly Amsterdam, which Braudel sees as the last of the economically dominant cities. Then, with a characteristic twist, he turns the problem inside out and discusses the failure of other parts of the world, including France and India, to achieve a similar dominant position, before ending with Britain and the Industrial Revolution.

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[Access article in PDF] Book Review The Mediterranean:

A Cultural Landscape The Mediterranean: A Cultural Landscape. By PREDRAG MATVEJEVIC. Translated by MICHAEL HENRY HEIM. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. 218. $29.95 (cloth). For decades, Fernand Braudel has dominated the study of the Mediterranean as a historical unit (Fernand Braudel, La Mditerrane et le Monde mditerranen l'poque de Philippe II [Paris: Armand Colin, 95th ed., 1990]). While regional studies have followed his monumental work, few have re-attempted Braudel's feat. Over the last decade, however, a number of scholars have emerged to build upon his work. Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell have analyzed the microenvironments of the Mediterranean, and have traced Braudel's longue dure to antiquity (Peregrin Horden and Nicholas Purcell, The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History [Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2000]). Predrag Matvejevic offers a subjective perspective on the history of the Mediterranean, arguing that it cannot be reduced to prescribed categories. Matvejevic contends that Braudel was the first to realize that his model got away from him as he was writing about the sea, overwhelming the reader with a barrage of information. This is precisely what Matvejevic attempts to avoid. His task is one of poetically evoking rather than tightly representing the Mediterranean. More than a defined place on the map, the Mediterranean becomes a cultural and intellectual product. It is a sea of promiscuity where the ideas, religions, traditions, and languages have shaped history. The author describes the Mediterranean as the basis for history and culture, and his philosophy of the sea tries to encompass everything.

Definitions, of course, are slippery, and the author sets out to limit [End Page 483] the scope of the Mediterranean. For Matvejevic the sea stretches as far as the olive tree grows. Here he emerges with a truly holistic vision, supporting the concept of a Mediterranean ecumene in which interaction is the foundation of the surrounding societies. The author addresses the question: "How can anyone take so many forms and structures, so many groupings of lands and vegetation . . . and compress it into a system?" (p. 30). Matvejevic seeks to encompass "[t]he sea and all that goes with it" (p. 35). Matvejevic reveals how the environment affected the lives of people and how the Mediterranean itself was shaped by human production. For instance, he claims "[s]outhern eccentrics differ from their northern counterparts, and not only for reasons of climate: the Mediterranean's psychic climate is also distinctive" (p. 43). Matvejevic renders a subjective account of the sea and confesses that "[n]o one writes about the Mediterranean or sails it without personal involvement" (p. 66). But the author has a specific reason for his introspection. Halfway through the book he defines his objective: "to portray the presence of these peoples on the sea, or rather, their relationship to the sea insofar as it can be derived from history or the past" (p. 73). be457b7860