1. Ferdinand Blaudel’s three layers of historical time are essential in the second wave of the Annale’s scholarship. How are the concepts of “long durée”, “medium durée”, and “histoire événementielle reflective of Structuralist ideals? As stated in Houses of History: A critical reader in twentieth-century history and theory, “An analyst of society will seek to elucidate these structures.” How can historians examine evidence in a way that will break down barriers and make ideas clearer? Should historians consider Blaudel’s model successful, since much historical writing deals with “change over time.”
2. Leopold von Ranke once avowed, “The facts of history never come to us ‘pure’ since they do not and cannot exist in a pure form: they are always
2. Leopold von Ranke once avowed, “The facts of history never come to us ‘pure’ since they do not and cannot exist in a pure form: they are always