Fernand Braudel. the French historian, in a French-English conversation about his ideas with Peter Burke , Reader in Intellectual History, University of Sussex, and H. G. Koenigs berger, Professor of History King's College, London.
Professor Braudel has been the leading spirit in the Annales, that school of French historians named after the historical journal Braudel has himself directed. Best known for his major study, The Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip 11, he has just completed the second volume of his most recent work, Capitalism and Material Life.