longue duréen.

A perspective on history that extends deep into the past, focusing on the long-standing and imperceptibly slowly changing relationships between people and the world which constitute the most fundamental (and hence the least questioned or analysed) aspects of social life, and incorporating findings from disciplines such as climatology, demography, and physical geography. Later also more generally: the long term in historical discourse, as opposed to current or recent events. The term was introduced by the French historian, Fernand Braudel (1902–85), most notably in his La Méditerranée et le monde méditerranéen à l'époque de Philippe II (1949), and is particularly associated with the Annales school of historiography. According to Braudel, history can be divided into the longue durée, the moyenne durée of economic and social trends, and the courte durée of political, military, cultural, etc., events. Later use of the term is often wider than Braudel's categories.