Editing Annales school (section)

==Origins==
The ''Annales'' was founded and edited by [[Marc Bloch]] and [[Lucien Febvre]] in 1929, while they were teaching at the [[University of Strasbourg]] and later in Paris. These authors, the former a medieval historian and the latter an early modernist, quickly became associated with the distinctive ''Annales'' approach, which combined geography, history, and the sociological approaches of the {{lang|fr|[[Année Sociologique]]}} (many members of which were their colleagues at Strasbourg) to produce an approach which rejected the predominant emphasis on politics, diplomacy and war of many 19th and early 20th-century historians as spearheaded by historians whom Febvre called Les Sorbonnistes. Instead, they pioneered an approach to a study of long-term historical structures ({{lang|fr|la [[longue durée]]}}) over events and political transformations.<ref>Colin Jones, "Olwen Hufton's 'Poor', Richard Cobb's 'People', and the Notions of the longue durée in French Revolutionary Historiography", ''Past & Present'', 2006 Supplement (Volume 1), pp. 178–203 [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/past_and_present/v2006/2006.1Sjones.html in Project Muse]</ref> Geography, material culture, and what later Annalistes called {{lang|fr|mentalités}}, or the psychology of the epoch, are also characteristic areas of study. The goal of the Annales was to undo the work of the Sorbonnistes, to turn French historians away from the narrowly political and diplomatic toward the new vistas in social and economic history.<ref>J.H. Hexter, "Fernand Braudel and the Monde Braudellien", '' Historians'', pp. 61</ref>

Co-founder [[Marc Bloch]] (1886–1944) was a quintessential modernist who studied at the elite École Normale Supérieure, and in Germany, serving as a professor at the University of Strasbourg until he was called to the Sorbonne in Paris in 1936 as professor of economic history. Bloch's interests were highly interdisciplinary, influenced by the geography of [[Paul Vidal de la Blache]] (1845–1918)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wwwstage.valpo.edu/geomet/histphil/test/vidal.html |first1=Jason |last1=Hilkovitch |first2=Max |last2=Fulkerson |title=Paul Vidal de la Blache: A biographical sketch |access-date=2006-09-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060909192633/http://wwwstage.valpo.edu/geomet/histphil/test/vidal.html |archive-date=2006-09-09}}</ref> and the sociology of [[Émile Durkheim]] (1858–1917). His own ideas, especially those expressed in his masterworks, ''French Rural History'' ({{lang|fr|Les caractères originaux de l'histoire rurale française}}, 1931) and ''Feudal Society'', were incorporated by the second-generation Annalistes, led by [[Fernand Braudel]].