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Braudel had already started archival research on his doctorate on the Mediterranean when he fell under the influence of the [[Annales School]] around 1938 when he entered the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes as an instructor in history. He worked with [[Lucien Febvre]], who would later read the early versions of Braudel's magnum opus and provide him with editorial advice. At the outbreak of war in 1939, he was called up and subsequently taken prisoner by the Germans, 1940-45. While a prisoner of war Braudel was without access to his books or notes; he relied on his prodigious memory to contemplate and draft his work.   

Braudel had already started archival research on his doctorate on the Mediterranean when he fell under the influence of the [[Annales School]] around 1938 when he entered the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes as an instructor in history. He worked with [[Lucien Febvre]], who would later read the early versions of Braudel's magnum opus and provide him with editorial advice. At the outbreak of war in 1939, he was called up and subsequently taken prisoner by the Germans, 1940-45. While a prisoner of war Braudel was without access to his books or notes; he relied on his prodigious memory to contemplate and draft his work.   

In 1949 he was elected to the Collège de France upon Lucien Febvre’s retirement. In 1947, with Febvre and Charles Morazé, Braudel founded the famous Sixième Section for ‘Economic and social sciences’ at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. He retired in 1968, and in 1983 was elected to the Académie Française.  

In 1949 he was elected to the Collège de France upon Lucien Febvre’s retirement. In 1947, with Febvre and Charles Morazé, Braudel founded the famous Sixième Section for ‘Economic and social sciences’ at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. He retired in 1968, and in 1983 was elected to the Académie française.  

==La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen à l'Epoque de Philippe II ==

==La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen à l'Epoque de Philippe II ==

[[File:Braudel1.jpg|thumb|180px]] His first and greatest book, ''La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen à l'Epoque de Philippe II'' (1949) (''The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II'') was his most influential.  The Mediterranean legacy in Europe included cultivated crops consumption habits, monotheistic religion, and mental and cultural tools such as the language, laws, and pretensions of the state, as well as urbanism, the prestige of the written word, and the instruments of chronology. The culture ceased to be dominant in the 15th or 16th century, but the new [[Atlantic History|Atlantic culture]] embodied much of it and extended its elements to Siberia, the Americas, and the Antipodes.

[[File:Braudel1.jpg|thumb|180px]] His first and greatest book, ''La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen à l'Epoque de Philippe II'' (1949) (''The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II'') was his most influential.  The Mediterranean legacy in Europe included cultivated crops consumption habits, monotheistic religion, and mental and cultural tools such as the language, laws, and pretensions of the state, as well as urbanism, the prestige of the written word, and the instruments of chronology. The culture ceased to be dominant in the 15th or 16th century, but the new [[Atlantic History|Atlantic culture]] embodied much of it and extended its elements to Siberia, the Americas, and the Antipodes.