Burke - Chapters 1 &2

Prior to the Enlightenment, the realm of historical studies extended to only three domains, political, military, and nobility. It wasn't until the mid-eighteenth century that a number of scholars began to look to a more non-political history. This is the history of society itself, the integration of interdisciplinary studies, including psychology and sociology and to take a problematic approach to history. The school of thought which approached history is this manner was the Annales.

The basis for the Annales was a French journal which began in 1928 by Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch. This journal was their way of being able to bring forth these new approaches to history in which historians were to take a problem oriented approach to history and through the studies of society itself with the integration of interdisciplinary studies, would be able to achieve an answer to the problem. As both Febvre and Bloch's careers begin to rise, so did the Annales. This "new kind of history" now began to make its way into schools and universities. This revolutionary approach to history was able to take over.

This change in the way that we approach history really is revolutionary so why is it that information on this is not in our standard history books as a major world event?