Annales, History from Below, Carr and Elton, and the Postmodern Challenge

What this note covers

1. The Annales founders: problem-history and mentalities
2. Braudel, the longue durée and microhistory's answer
3. History from below: British Marxist historians and their heirs
4. Carr and Elton revisited: causation and the historian's life
5. Postmodernism: discourse, narrative and the cultural turn
6. The reply: practical realism and the limits of representation
7. Using the twentieth-century schools in exam answers

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