We, the Annales: Marc Bloch, Lucien Febvre and the making of the Revue des Annales (1929-1944).

Author(s)

Mariana Ladeira Oses

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2018-12-14

Examining board members

Miguel Soares Palmeira; Sergio Miceli Pessoa de Barros; Sérgio Ricardo da Mata; Lidiane Soares Rodrigues

• Advisor: Miguel Soares Palmeira; Rafael Faraco Benthien

Abstract

The Annales dHistoire Économique et Sociale, founded by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre in 1929, are usually perceived as the cradle of what came to be known as the Annales. Nevertheless, this expression isnt a synonym of the journal that originated it: the Annales are a subject that transcends the tangible periodical and that has become, throughout the twentieth century, the core of a highly influential, albeit hard to define, historiographical phenomenon. This dissertation focuses on Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvres joint effort to run the journal (1929-1944), aiming to investigate the making of the review and, therefore, shed light on the strategies its directors have resorted to in order to legitimize their project and assure its success. By analyzing the letters exchanged between Bloch and Febvre as well as the critic reviews published by them, this dissertation argues that, in making the journal, its directors elaborate an intellectual apparatus to bring forth coherence, and that, through this specific apparatus, the idea of the Annales as an independent subject gradually takes form. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 16/11952-0 - The Annales beyond the Annales: Marc Bloch, Lucien Febvre and their critical reviews outside of the Annales d'Histoire Économique et Sociale
• Grantee: Mariana Ladeira Osés
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master