Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales

…colleague, Lucien Febvre, founded the Annales d’histoire économique et sociale, a journal dedicated to overcoming disciplinary and national boundaries and promoting a more human, accessible history. After a modest start in the tumultuous 1930s, the Annales achieved prominence after World War II and gave its name to an influential international…

…then director of the journal Annales: économies, sociétés, civilisations (1946–85) and was elected professor at the Collège de France in 1950 (a position he held until 1972). In 1956 he succeeded Febvre as president of the Sixth Section of the École Pratique des Hautes Études; under his direction it became…

…colleague Marc Bloch founded the Annales d’histoire économique et sociale, a journal that championed a more dynamic and human history. Febvre was a popular, if forbidding, professor whose lectures and reviews were laced with candour, wit, and barbs at traditionalists.

…changed again in 1994, to Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales). Its impact was vastly enhanced by the capture by the Annalistes of the newly reconstituted Sixth Section of the École des Hautes Études (School of Higher Studies). Eventually, as a result of bureaucratic centralization in France and the willingness of the…