The Magazine Annales

Annales is a prestigious French academic journal dedicated to history and social sciences, founded in 1929. It emphasizes long-term historical processes over individual events, focusing on societal structures, geography, and economy. The journal promotes interdisciplinary research, integrating methods from various fields to understand historical phenomena comprehensively. Its approach, known as the "Annales school," aims to provide deeper insights into societal changes by analyzing broad patterns and trends rather than just chronological events. Widely respected among historians, it has significantly influenced modern historical scholarship and methodology.