Fernand Braudel
Fernand Paul Achille Braudel was a towering French historian and leading figure of the Annales School, which became the most influential engine of historical research in France and much of the world after 1950.
His major works include The Mediterranean, Civilization and Capitalism, and the unfinished Identity of France.
Braudel is celebrated for emphasizing large-scale socioeconomic forces in historical writing, shifting focus away from individual actors toward structural patterns.
His methodology and prolific output established him as one of the greatest modern historians, and he is recognized as a precursor of world-systems theory.
