Chapter 1:
Burke explains that in order for any revolution to be successful you need to look at what came before. The same idea applies to History. The new histories that historians write emerge from the understanding of the previous history that was written. The authors of these new histories build their arguments up from criticisms of these "traditional" histories. The Annales school didn't just look at histories of people it looked at outside fields such as psychology, and sociology.
Chapter 2:
One of the two founder of the Annales school, Lucien Febvre is quoted in the chapter as arguing that "a river might be treated by one society as a barrier, yet as a root by another." Here he is looking at history through the relationship of a people to their environment. Marc Bloch, the second founder focused on a multidisciplinary approach to history; social, economics, and political factors all weighed equally.
How has the Annales school greatly affected the 20th century historical writing?
Was this excursively a French idea? Or did Americans and British create similar counter histories in the same period?
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