Editing Annales school (section)

==The journal==
{{main article|Annales d'histoire économique et sociale}}
The journal began in Strasbourg as {{lang|fr|Annales d'histoire économique et sociale}}; it moved to Paris and kept the same name from 1929 to 1939. It was successively renamed {{lang|fr|Annales d'histoire sociale}} (1939–1942, 1945), {{lang|fr|Mélanges d'histoire sociale}} (1942–1944), {{lang|fr|Annales. Economies, sociétés, civilisations}} (1946–1994), and {{lang|fr|Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales}} (1994– ).<ref name="journal names">{{cite book |first=P. |last=Burke |title=The French Historical Revolution. The Annales School 1929–89 |page=116 n. 2}}</ref>

In 1962, Braudel and Gaston Berger used [[Ford Foundation]] money and government funds to create a new independent foundation, the {{Lang|fr|Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme}} (FMSH), which Braudel directed from 1970 until his death. In 1970, the 6th Section and the ''Annales'' relocated to the FMSH building. FMSH set up elaborate international networks to spread the ''Annales'' gospel across Europe and the world. In 2013, it began publication of an English language edition, with all the articles translated.

The scope of topics covered by the journal is vast and experimental—there is a search for total history and new approaches. The emphasis is on social history, and very long-term trends, often using quantification and paying special attention to geography<ref>See Lucien Febvre, {{lang|fr|La Terre et l'évolution humaine}} (1922), translated as ''A Geographical Introduction to History'' (London, 1932).</ref> and to the intellectual world view of common people, or "mentality" ({{lang|fr|mentalité}}). Little attention is paid to political, diplomatic, or military history, or to biographies of famous men. Instead the ''Annales'' focused attention on the synthesizing of historical patterns identified from social, economic, and cultural history, statistics, medical reports, family studies, and even psychoanalysis.