longue durée
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French longue durée (“long duration”). Attested since the 1960s.
Noun edit
longue durée (uncountable)
- (historiography, social sciences) A long period of time during which social processes develop or social structures evolve.
- 1978, Lynn Avery Hunt, Revolution and Urban Politics in Provincial France: Troyes and Reims, 1786-1790, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 1:
- The "Annales" school draws attention to the virtually unchanging geography of a region, the rising and ebbing movements of the economy, or the rhythmic repetitions in social relations — i.e., to the "longue duree" — rather than to those fleeting events we call political.
- An approach to the study of history over such long periods.
- The long term; a relatively long period of time.
- 1976, Jean Franco, “Foreword”, in The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories, University of Wisconsin Press, translation of original by Horacio Quiroga, →ISBN, page xv:
- The longue duree of river and rocks throws into relief the trivial pursuits of the dying man whose last thoughts are of a briefer time span.
Usage notes edit
The term longue durée is especially associated with French historians and social scientists of the Annales School.
Translations edit
historiographical term, "long lines of history"
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