Knowra Longue durée Longue durée A historical timescale focused on enduring structures that change more slowly than events or political regimes. It directs attention to geography, economies, and social patterns across centuries.
Historical time : The varied temporal scales through which historians study change and continuity. Longue durée is one scale within this broader account of historical time.
Braudel's three temporalities : Fernand Braudel's division of historical time into geographical, social-economic, and event-based scales. This framework makes longue durée one layer in a model of interacting historical durations.
Fernand Braudel : A French historian whose work on the Mediterranean shaped twentieth-century social history. Braudel gave longue durée its influential formulation and demonstrated it in major studies.
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II : Fernand Braudel's study of Mediterranean geography, societies, and politics in the sixteenth century. The book applies longue durée by placing political events within much slower environmental and economic patterns.
Event history : Historical analysis organized around discrete events, decisions, and turning points. It focuses on the short-duration developments that longue durée places within broader structures.
Historical event : A bounded occurrence that historians identify as a significant change or turning point. Events unfold quickly compared with the durable structures emphasized by longue durée.
Structural history : Historical analysis centered on durable systems and relationships rather than isolated events. It turns the slow conditions of longue durée into the main objects of explanation.
Marc Bloch : A French historian and co-founder of the Annales School who studied comparative social history. Bloch helped establish the historical movement from which longue durée emerged.
World-systems theory : An approach that analyzes global economic relations through interconnected core, periphery, and semiperiphery regions. It applies long-term structural analysis to the emergence and persistence of a world economy.
Political history : The study of political institutions, conflicts, leaders, and decisions in the past. Traditional political narratives often privilege regime changes that longue durée treats as one temporal layer.
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