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| Annales d'histoire économique et sociale | |
|---|---|
| Title | Annales d'histoire économique et sociale |
| Discipline | History |
| Language | French |
| Publisher | Armand Colin |
| Country | France |
| History | 1929–present |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
Annales d'histoire économique et sociale was a French scholarly journal founded in 1929 that became central to 20th-century historical methodology and historiography. It connected scholarly networks around Parisian institutions and figures, intersecting with debates involving Fernand Braudel, Marc Bloch, Lucien Febvre, Braudel School, École des Annales, and contributors across Europe and the Americas. The journal influenced studies on demography, geography, and longue durée perspectives through engagement with research tied to University of Paris, Collège de France, École Normale Supérieure, Institute for Advanced Study, and other centers.
The journal was launched in the context of interwar France alongside projects associated with Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre, attracting thinkers linked to Fernand Braudel, Pierre Renouvin, Georges Duby, Jacques Le Goff, and Ernest Labrousse. Early editorial decisions occurred amid interactions with institutions such as Université de Strasbourg, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, École Pratique des Hautes Études, CNRS, and international bodies like Royal Historical Society and American Historical Association. Its pages documented responses to events including the Great Depression, Spanish Civil War, and later the Cold War, while contributors debated methodologies during debates parallel to those at Harvard University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Sorbonne University, and University of Chicago.
Articles addressed long-term structures and comparative histories, bringing together scholars who had worked on topics related to Mediterranean Sea commerce, Atlantic World exchanges, Industrial Revolution, French Revolution, Napoleonic Wars, and regional studies like Provence, Brittany, Normandy, Aquitaine, and Ile-de-France. Contributors examined institutions such as Bank of France, Hanseatic League, Guilds of Florence, and Ottoman Empire archives, while intersecting with demographic studies tied to Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, and Institut National d'Études Démographiques. The journal often integrated source material from collections like Archives nationales (France), Vatican Secret Archives, British Library, and National Archives (UK).
The title was published by Armand Colin with editorial leadership associated with figures from École des Annales and editorial boards including scholars from Université de Lyon, Université de Toulouse, Université de Bordeaux, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Université Catholique de Louvain, and Università di Bologna. Editors coordinated peer review processes engaging reviewers affiliated with École Française de Rome, Deutsche Historical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Instituto de Historia (CSIC). The journal’s editorial correspondence intersected with libraries and presses such as Presses Universitaires de France, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and archival networks like Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent.
Seminal pieces included methodological essays and empirical studies by scholars who also published monographs at Plon, Gallimard, Seuil, and Fayard. Noteworthy contributions engaged with sources from Notarial Records of Paris, Manuscripts of Marseille, Portolan Charts, and quantitative series from Paris Bourse ledgers and Le Havre customs registers. Authors often overlapped with those who produced influential work in venues such as Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, Past & Present, The Economic History Review, Revue Historique, and Storia della Storiografia. The journal featured analyses connected to figures and events like Jean Bodin, Alexis de Tocqueville, Louis XIV, Charles de Gaulle, Vichy France, May 1968, and broader themes associated with Atlantic slavery, Industrialization in England, Agrarian change in Poland, and Urbanization in Paris.
Scholars at institutions including Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan, McGill University, University of Toronto, Australian National University, and University of Tokyo debated the journal’s methods alongside critics from Cambridge School (intellectual history), Quantitative history movement, and advocates of the Cultural turn. The journal influenced curricula at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, King's College London, and informed museum exhibitions at Musée de l'Homme and archival projects tied to International Council on Archives. Responses ranged from accolades in awards circles including the Prix Gobert and discussions in venues such as Le Monde and The Times Literary Supplement.
Back issues are catalogued in holdings of Bibliothèque nationale de France, British Library, Library of Congress, Biblioteca Nacional de España, and digital repositories affiliated with Gallica, JSTOR, Project MUSE, and university libraries at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, University of Oxford Bodleian Libraries, Harvard Library, and Yale Beinecke Library. Libraries and citation services like Scopus, Web of Science, CrossRef, WorldCat, and Google Scholar index the journal’s bibliographic records, while interlibrary loan networks connect scholars at State Library of Victoria, Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, National Diet Library (Japan), and Biblioteca Nacional de Chile.
Category:French academic journals Category:History journals