Fernand Braudel's work in the context of the historical formation of the Annales School and the genesis of his foundational work on the Mediterranean, published in 1949, in the post-World War II period. During his stay in Brazil (1935-1937), and later during in his war captivity in Germany in the post-war years, Braudel was a thorough reader not only of Gilberto Freyre's work, but also other Latin Amrican authors, for instance Ezequiel Martínez Estrada and Benjamín Subercaseaux.His interest in the longue durée structures made him prone to the scenic representations of the Brazilian colonial "Casa Grande" and other texts by Freyre, but