Annales School / Longue Durée
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CORE DEFINITION
Opposed to focusing on short-term political events (such as a king's coronation or the outbreak of war), it advocates focusing on long-term structural factors such as geography, climate, population, and mentalities. Scaffolding role: deep historical perspective. When analyzing industry trends, do not be led by daily news (events), but look at underlying technological cycles, demographic structures, and cultural changes (longue durée). That is the force that determines the direction of the tide.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
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Deep historical perspective. When analyzing industry trends, do not be led by daily news (events), but look at underlying technological cycles, demographic structures, and cultural changes (longue durée). That is the force that determines the direction of the tide.
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The Annales School is a 20th-century French historiographical movement (centered on the journal Annales) that advocates 'total history': it downweights political event history and instead studies long-term structures (geography, economy, social mentalities), using interdisciplinary methods to examine 'static history'.
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