Abstract
In this condensed version of his book L'histoire en miettes Dosse delineates the history of the Annales school from its emergence between the world wars through the 1980's when the school came to occupy a "hegemonic position among historians." Dosse maintains that any attempt at a synthesis of Annales is "perilous" and he instead traces its "discontinuities": from its inception by founders Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch through the Annales of Braudel in the 1950's, which emphasized economics and abandoned events, to the third generation of Annales which leans toward "historical anthropology." Dosse characterizes this third generation as having "decentered" man and reduced him to the margins of fragmented "histories." (am)