| Fernand Braudel(1902-1985), the famous French historian, the second generation leading man of Annales, was known by the reputation as "History Maestro"> "History Pioneer","Being Change the Course of History".Braudel age is in the period of great prosperity of Annales development that he puts forward the creative Long Duree theory, and three duration theory-"Event" "Posture", and "Structure".It is to be remarked that Braudel's conception civilization history is closely bonded with the Long Duree, which makes him not only set foot on French, but also keep in view the world based on this theory. Exploring development process in different times, different country and different area civilization provides him an all-around knowledge and understanding of surroundings from a more macroscopic angle and standpoint.The research value of civilization history conception resides in arousing the authentic dialogue among history,economics and sociological, which closely embraces the relationship of each study. In a nut, its research value is the pursuit of rigorous structure. Braudel unerring says,"No essence of event could be acquired, without observing from external and overall coordinating.The study on civilization history breaks the new ground and line of investigation, while history conception provides new soil for acknowledging and understanding Braudel overall history conception. We could not have a balanced and depth view of Braudel history conception, if our research approach and understanding angle could not found upon his global dimension. Braudel civilization conception goes beyond the subject itself, which exerts wide and far-reaching impact on every aspect of humanities sciences.The whole thesis mainly consists of four parts namely introduction, ideological sources of Braudel's conceptions of civilization history, contents and characteristics of Braudel's conceptions of civilization history and his comments on Braudel's conceptions of civilization history.Part II. In this part, the author will introduce and analyze the ideological sources of the formation of Braudel's conception of civilization history mainly from four aspects, so that readers can get a macro understanding of the conceptions mentioned. The author will take a viewpoint of entire history and regard the importance of Long Duree to the research on Braudel's conception of civilization history.Part III. This part will focus on the details of Braudel's conception of civilization history. By putting the details in order, the author shows readers not only the common laws and tendencies of human society development, but also unique cultural connotations of different cultures. At the same time, the author will pay attention to relationships among various kinds of culture, so as to deepen the understanding of cultural diversity. At last, the author will analyze the characteristics of Braudel's conception of civilization history with the details above.Part IV. In this part, the author will common on Braudel's conception of civilization history from both positive and negative aspects, discuss the contributions that Braudel's conception of civilization history does to the research of civilization. And then he will analyze the disadvantages of Braudel's conception of civilization history from the point of various academic criticisms. |
