Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. Nor it it only political history which benefits most, for every historical landscape--political, economic, social, even geographical--is illumined by the intermittent flare of the event. Fernand Braudel More Fernand Braudel Quotes 0
Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time. Fernand Braudel More Fernand Braudel Quotes 0