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Structural history, the core model of the Annales School of French historians, offers an analytical programme for structuring and hence simplifying the phenomena of the human past in all their complexity. This volume is designed to explain the key concepts and approaches developed by Annaliste scholarship and to apply them to the discipline of archaeology.
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- PublisherNew York University Press
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0814711685
- ISBN 13 9780814711682
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages1
- EditorBintliff John
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