The Order of Historical Time: the Longue Durée and Micro-History

• Autor(a) principal: Tomich, Dale
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng; por
• Título da fonte: Almanack (Guarulhos)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/alm/article/view/13389
• topic: plural temporality; longue durée; Fernand Braudel

This article is concerned with Fernand Braudel’s conception of theplural temporality and, above all, the longue durée as a practicaltool for historical inquiry. Through an examination of the work ofBraudel’s colleague Ernst Labrousse, it emphasizes the theoretical andmethodological assumptions underlying the practice of serial history as themeans to reconstruct such “structural temporalities.” Finally, it treats theconcern for the episodic and short-term that characterizes Italian microhistóriaas a reaction to the dominance of French serial history which,nonetheless remains in relation to Braudel’s conception of plural time. Inthis way the article seeks to make explicit the relationship between the socalled“second Annales” of Braudel and Italian microhistory and to suggestways the conceptions of temporality might promote dialogue betweendiverse historiographical approaches.