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Total History: The Annales School

In a spirit of self-mockery Heinrich Heine wrote that other nations may be powerful on land and sea but Germans dominated the air. He was, of course, referring to that thin spiritual atmosphere in which the philosophers floated their dreams and theories. Today, in the second half of the twentieth century, while other powers measure their strength in terms of armoured divisions or technological prowess, the French reign supreme in historiography. That at least is the view of Professor Traian Stoianovich in his instructive study of the contemporary French historical school especially as represented by Annales.' According to Stoianovich, there are three nations who have led the world in the field of historical scholarship; in two, Greece and Germany, the flame of creativity has been extinguished but it continues to burn brightly in France.