Braudel before Braudel? The Algerian years (1923-1932)

Name: Braudel before Braudel? The Algerian years (1923-1932)
Author: Carlier, Omar

Title	Braudel before Braudel? The Algerian years (1923-1932)
Author	Carlier, Omar
Publication Place	Oran, Algeria - Center for Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Type	Book
Language	ara,fra
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Library:	Royal Danish Library
Library Asset ID	ISSN: 1111-2050, EISSN: 2253-0738, DOI: 10.4000/insaniyat.5936
Record ID	cdi_emarefa_primary_1317952
Library Location	ProQuest Central
Notes	No one can say, in 1928, when Fernand Braudel published in the Revue Africaine, at the age of 26, a first and very long article on the Spaniards in Oran, that it was shaping up to be the giant, disturbing and incongruous work of a brilliant historian. There is no doubt, however, that the invention of the Mediterranean, an unprecedented "historical character", a "complex of seas", but also of "lands between the seas", owes much to the accumulation of inseparably intellectual and existential experiences lived over ten years from the southern shore. Suddenly free to build his life, without a father and without a master, the young associate learns a trade, explores a discipline, forges a style. Better still, the Lorraine and landlubber who became a lover of the sea, passionate about travel and archives, a bit of a gambler but a hard worker and imaginative, is unknowingly preparing the foundations for a true adventure of the mind. Spending each summer in Simancas, he learned to read the politics of “Philip the Prudent” over his shoulder and from an Ottoman land, as a geographer and strategist, for the economy as well as for war. Flying over Sicily, traveling from Castile to the Adriatic, he watches in Dubrovnik coming towards him, as in the time of Ragusa, a large sea barge. The Mediterranean in the time of Philip II is there. Space and time reveal themselves to each other. The intellectual catalysis takes place at the end of another fruitful detour, via Sao Paulo, and the Atlantic, encouraged or precipitated by Fèbvre. Braudel can become Braudel, and overturn by a prodigious intellectual stroke of force the terms of exchange between the Emperor and the Sea.
Görüntüle	Insaniyat, 2003, Vol.7 (19-20), p.143-176

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Braudel before Braudel? The Algerian years (1923-1932)

Author Carlier, Omar

Publication Place Oran, Algeria - Center for Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Type Book

Language ara,fra

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Library Royal Danish Library

Library Asset ID ISSN: 1111-2050, EISSN: 2253-0738, DOI: 10.4000/insaniyat.5936

Record ID cdi_emarefa_primary_1317952

Library Location ProQuest Central

Notes No one can say, in 1928, when Fernand Braudel published in the Revue Africaine, at the age of 26, a first and very long article on the Spaniards in Oran, that it was shaping up to be the giant, disturbing and incongruous work of a brilliant historian. There is no doubt, however, that the invention of the Mediterranean, an unprecedented "historical character", a "complex of seas", but also of "lands between the seas", owes much to the accumulation of inseparably intellectual and existential experiences lived over ten years from the southern shore. Suddenly free to build his life, without a father and without a master, the young associate learns a trade, explores a discipline, forges a style. Better still, the Lorraine and landlubber who became a lover of the sea, passionate about travel and archives, a bit of a gambler but a hard worker and imaginative, is unknowingly preparing the foundations for a true adventure of the mind. Spending each summer in Simancas, he learned to read the politics of “Philip the Prudent” over his shoulder and from an Ottoman land, as a geographer and strategist, for the economy as well as for war. Flying over Sicily, traveling from Castile to the Adriatic, he watches in Dubrovnik coming towards him, as in the time of Ragusa, a large sea barge. The Mediterranean in the time of Philip II is there. Space and time reveal themselves to each other. The intellectual catalysis takes place at the end of another fruitful detour, via Sao Paulo, and the Atlantic, encouraged or precipitated by Fèbvre. Braudel can become Braudel, and overturn by a prodigious intellectual stroke of force the terms of exchange between the Emperor and the Sea.

Görüntüle Insaniyat, 2003, Vol.7 (19-20), p.143-176