O espaço braudeliano: navegando pelos mares da geo-história e os tesouros do Mediterrâneo na historiografia da primeira metade do século XX.

Abstract

From the 1940s onwards, the French historian Fernand Braudel redefined his field of study, opening space for a historiographical field that until then had received little attention. This occurred mainly when, in 1949, the work The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Time of Philip II was published, establishing a new approach to the historical analysis of societies in a space of multiple events. For this to happen, his stay at the University of Algiers was a determining factor in the structuring and publication of his monumental work. Based on this, the main objective of this work is to analyze how the first part of this work established a new form of historiographical approach, highlighting the role of space as a structuring element of historical dynamics in society. For this purpose, we base our theoretical analyses on authors such as Milton Santos (2006) and Henri Lefebvre (2013), to discuss the concept of space; Carlos Antonio Aguirre Rojas (2003) and Guilherme Ribeiro (2017), to understand the relationship between Braudel and geography; and Jaeder Fernandes Cunha (2011), to examine the structural writing of history. As a methodological resource, the research has a bibliographic character, based on the analysis of books, texts and articles on general aspects of Braudel's life and work, with attention to the written production on the Mediterranean. In addition, we appropriated Braudel's bibliography as the main source of the research.