Burke 3 & 4

In both these chapters we learn about the next few generations of Annales historians. The second generation is lead by Braudel whose thesis was about King Phillip II. Not only was Braudel a part of the Annales school but he would also become the director of the school. He was inspired by his mentors and directors of the past and now it was his turn to do the same for the new, younger historians under his watch. Like Brooke has mentioned, this generation really saw a great amount of quantitative data and really focused on things like the economic structure of a society as opposed to just the social or religious. Once we get to the third generation we see a huge amount of change. The biggest being that women are now a studied part of history. This generation continues with the quantitative data like we saw in the second generation and they also go back to studying the political and military aspects of history.