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Braudel Revisited

Braudel Revisited

The Mediterranean World 1600-1800

by Gabriel Piterberg, Teofilo Ruiz and Geoffrey Symcox

Published by: University of Toronto Press

Series: UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series

Imprint: University of Toronto Press

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9781442686854
Published: December 2010

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9781487511197
Published: October 2015

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Fernand Braudel (1912-1985), was a leading French historian and author of, among other books, the groundbreaking The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949). One of the founders of the Annales School in France, Braudel insisted on treating the Mediterranean region as a whole, irrespective of religious and national divides. Braudel's new historiography rejected political history as the dominant discipline and espoused a 'total history' or a 'history from below' that would tell the story of the vast majority of humanity hitherto excluded from the grand narrative. At the time of the book's appearance, this premise was revolutionary.

The contributors to Braudel Revisited assess the impact of Braudel's work on today's academic world, in light of subsequent methodological shifts. Engaging with Braudel's texts as well as with his ideas, the essays in this volume speak to the enduring legacy of his work on the ongoing exploration of early modern history.

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction
GABRIEL PITERBERG, TEOFILO F. RUIZ, AND GEOFFREY SYMCOX

PART I: THINKING WITH BRAUDEL

1 The Problem of Unbelief in Braudel’s Mediterranean
LUCETTE VALENSI

2 Braudel and the Mediterranean City
GEOFFREY SYMCOX

PART II: THINKING BEYOND BRAUDEL

3 A Mediterranean Culture of Factions? Bilateral Factionalism in the Greater Mediterranean Region in the Pre-Modern Era
JANE HATHAWAY

4 Polyglottism in the Ottoman Empire: A Reconsideration
LESLIE PEIRCE

5 Braudel’s Eastern Mediterranean Revisited
SJEVKET PAMUK

6 Sebastianism in Theory and Practice in Early Modern Portugal
BRYAN GIVENS

7 Geneva by the Sea: The Reformation in Nimes in Historiographical Context
ALLAN TULCHIN

8 Some Thoughts on the Social and Political Culture of Baroque Venice
MATTEO CASINI

9 The Algerian Economy and Cervantes’ First Work of Narrative Fiction
CARROLL B. JOHNSON

10 Braudel and the Cultural History of the Mediterranean: Anthropology and Les lieux d’histoire
JAMES AMELANG

11 Il faut mediterraniser la musique: After Braudel
GARY TOMLINSON

Contributors

Index

Gabriel Piterberg is a professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Teofilo Ruiz is Distinguished Professor of History at UCLA and, in 2011, was awarded the National Humanities Medal for his work on medieval Spain. He is the author of numerous volumes and studies, including From Heaven to Earth: The Reordering of Castilian Society, 1150‒1350 (Princeton, 2004) Spain’s Centuries of Crisis: 1300‒1474 (Oxford, 2007), and A King Travels (Princeton, 2012).

Geoffrey Symcox is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

‘The essays in this volume not only demonstrate the relevance of Braudel’s historical approach after the cultural, linguistic turn in historiography; but also provide interested historians vital research questions at the frontier of these fields.’
~Seven Agir, Eh-Net: February 2011

“A fitting testament to Braudel’s breadth and width of interests.”
~Maria Fusaro, European History Quarterly

“The richness and innovation of these ‘histories in’ the cultural life of the early modern Mediterranean are a provocation to future researches in the field and a demonstration of the possibilities inherent in a cultural history ‘of’ the Mediterranean.”
~Monique O'Connell, Journal of Modern History

“An intellectual effort to rethink the place of Braudel in the broader context of history and humanities, allowing us to rediscover the extent and significance of this work for contemporary scholarship.”
~Marijan Gubic, Mediterranean Quarterly