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Annales school

Meaning in history, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In history, Annales school means: A historiographical tradition associated with the French journal Annales and interdisciplinary study of social life and long-term structures.

In Turkish: Annales Okulu

How it is used

The tradition changed across generations; do not treat all associated historians as sharing one method.

Example sentences

  1. The Annales school encouraged this historian to connect geography with rural life.

    The connection illustrates the tradition's interdisciplinary reach.

  2. The course compares different generations of the Annales school.

    A school can contain changing priorities rather than a fixed doctrine.

Common collocations

  • the Annales school
  • Annales historiography
  • historiographyThe writing of history, and especially the study of how historians have written about a subject over time, which sources they used and how their views changed.
  • agrarianRelating to farming, land and the people who work it, or describing a society or economy based mainly on agriculture.

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