{"id":8215,"date":"2011-03-11T08:45:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T13:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8215"},"modified":"2018-01-11T15:55:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T20:55:53","slug":"amazon-recommendation-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/03\/11\/amazon-recommendation-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon recommendation fail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like many of you, I’ve bought lots of books from Amazon over the years. Knowing a fair bit about my book-buying habits, their recommendations for books I might be interested in are usually pretty good. Today’s email rather missed the mark:<\/p>\n

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I’m not sure how that book relates in any way to the work of Fernand Braudel<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Fernand Braudel (24 August 1902 \u2013 27 November 1985) was a French historian and a leader of the Annales School. His scholarship focused on three main projects, each representing several decades of intense study: The Mediterranean<\/em> (1923\u201349, then 1949\u201366), Civilization and Capitalism<\/em> (1955\u201379), and the unfinished Identity of France<\/em> (1970\u201385). His reputation stems in part from his writings, but even more from his success in making the Annales School the most important engine of historical research in France and much of the world after 1950. As the dominant leader of the Annales School of historiography in the 1950s and 1960s, he exerted enormous influence on historical writing in France and other countries.<\/p>\n

Braudel has been considered one of the greatest of the modern historians who have emphasized the role of large-scale socioeconomic factors in the making and writing of history.[1] He can also be considered as one of the precursors of World Systems Theory.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If you’ve browsed the history section, you’ll have seen them:<\/p>\n

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