Abstract:

Historians have built their studies of history according to the subjects they have given importance and chosen for centuries. Historiography has been shaped around the activities of “great men” or events that occurred under the influence of great men since Herodotus. However, centuries later, objections to this style of writing based on the narrative have arisen, and studies have emerged that stood in the way of this style. Culture, art and folk histories were written during the Enlightenment, but the history and activities of great men, together with Leopold von Ranke, who started academic historiography, continued to be the main and powerful question of historiography. The Annales School, which emerged at the beginning of the 20th century, has made the economic and social past the problem of historiography by challenging the narrative-based and event-oriented historiography understanding, which generally does not involve deep inquiries. With the Annales, historical subjects were handled with a much intensive analytical approach, while many different sources were used in historiography and cooperation with different disciplines was strengthened. In this study, it is focused on which subjects are left out while choosing the subjects that historians value to tell. Especıally, the direction and scope of historiography, which has changed with the Annales School, which focuses on a problem-oriented approach, has been tried to be discussed.

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