Richard E. Lee is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the editor of Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge, I: Determinism; Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge, II: Reductionism; and Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge, III: Dualism, all published by SUNY Press, and Life and Times of Cultural Studies: The Politics and Transformation of the Structures of Knowledge. He is also the coeditor, with Immanuel Wallerstein, of Overcoming the Two Cultures: Science versus the Humanities in the Modern World-System.

Introduction
Richard E. Lee

The Order of Historical Time: The Longue Durée and Micro-History
Dale Tomich

History and Geography: Braudel's "Extreme Longue Durée" as Generics?
Peter J. Taylor

Dutch Capitalism and the Europe's Great Frontier: The Baltic in the  Ecological Revolution of the Long Seventeenth Century
Jason W. Moore

The Semiproletarian Household over the Longue Durée of the
Modern World-System
Wilma A. Dunaway

In the Short Run Are We All Dead? A Political Ecology of the Development Climate
Philip McMichael

The Longue Durée and the Status of "Superstructures"
Richard E. Lee

Nomads and Kings: State Formation in Asia over the Longue Durée,
1250-1700
Ravi Arvind Palat

Long-Term Problems for the Longue Durée in the Social Sciences
Eric Mielants

Journalism, History, and Eurocentrism: Longue Durée and the Immediate in Braudel and Wallerstein
José da Mota Lopes

Appendix
History and the Social Sciences: The Longue Durée
Fernand Braudel

Index