The Viewer admires to Fernand Braudel

If you don´t know, the first career of the Viewer was History, at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and there she knew the "New History", a french line to understand that discipline with the ideas of  Annales. Economies, sociétés, civilisations.

It was created in 1929 for Lucien Fevre and Marc Bloch, and many other historians, who said that every historical fact happens in a place and it is build according with social undertandings. In that way they got together history, sociology, antropology, psicology and geografy, for that in 1994 the name was changed for Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales.

One of its more important historian was Fernand Braudel. He was born in France in 1902 and died in the same country in 1985. In a family of mathematicians, at the age of 20 he chose History, and then he became History teacher when he started his first job in Algeria as high school teacher. In that time, he was fascinated for the Mediterranean see the social relations who was possible throw it. For that his first works as a historian was La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen à l'époque de Philippe II (The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II).

When he wrote his second work, Civilization and Capitalism (1955–79), he also was one of the most important leaders of the Annales in its second generation. His last work was  the unfinished Identity of France (1970–85).

The Viewer admire him so much because he knew how to get together an integral look of human history about in a new term mentalités, about “what women and me do”, the manners to face the world, the most difficult to change in history. He called that the long dureé.

Braudel's history structures, both mental and environmental, determine the long-term course of events by constraining actions on, and by, humans over a duration long enough that they are beyond the consciousness of the actors involved.