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The Identity of France

work by Braudel

Also known as: “L’Identité de la France”

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In Fernand Braudel
…L’Identité de la France (1986; The Identity of France), he applied the geohistorical method to his homeland, presenting a history that favoured the physical mutations of its diverse regions over the unruly lives and thoughts of their inhabitants.
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