Oliver Bateman Does the WorkVerified account

fiona is in front of braudel's mediterranean vol. 2, which i'm using the shelter-from-home time to finish. read bits and pieces of vol. 1 in grad school

Have them, never read 'em.

Great bookends, like the Power Broker

I have his "Civilization and Capitalism" trilogy, too. Never wound up working on that period, though, so they have sat unread for a quarter century.

The first volume of that was good. Never touched the second. Stopped 2/3 through the third.

The Annales School is not my cup of tea.

Quentin Skinner / JGA Pocock (who I met, and who is still alive, amazingly) were my the sources of my methodology, but we got a fair dose of the Annales school as well. Foucault and his epigones were off limits, per my advisor, though I enjoyed that guy's work, for what it was

I've met Skinner. I don't think I've met Pocock. I have issues with the Cambridge School, but I do find it much more congenial. I am not a fan of Foucault, though maybe I ought to give him a second chance now that he's not being forced down my throat in grad school.