[HN Gopher] Christopher Hill's History from Below
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Christopher Hill's History from Below
Author : diodorus
Score : 10 points
Date : 2025-05-20 05:23 UTC (3 days ago)
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| lkrubner wrote:
| Surprising they don't mention Fernand Braudel:
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| https://www.amazon.com/Civilization-Capitalism-15th-18th-Cen...
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| The Annales journal was established in 1929 and shaped the
| context of everything that Christopher Hill did:
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| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annales_school
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| Braudel is the most famous of the historians from this school.
| His book "The Structures Of Everyday Life" established
| historiography on the basis of what ordinary people did in their
| ordinary lives: what they ate, what they wore, how they worked.
| And Braudel was building upon ideas already established by the
| founders of the Annales school. But this enormously influential
| group of historians were a constant source of inspiration to
| Christopher Hill, and I think shaped the way he wrote The World
| Turned Upside Down.
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| I recommend both Hill and Braudel, both pillars of my
| intellectual life.
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