"Volume III investigates what Braudel terms "world-economies" -- the economic dominance of a particular city at different periods of history, from Venice to Amsterdam, London, New York."--Publisher's description.
By examining in detail the material life of pre-industrial peoples around the world, Fernand Braudel significantly changed the way historians view their subject. Originally published in the early 1980s, Civilization traces the social and economic history of the world from the Mi…
Rev. translation of: Civilisation mateÌ#x81;rielle, eÌ#x81;conomie et capitalisme : XVe-XVIIIe sieÌ€cle.Vol. 1: Translation from the French revised by SiaÌ,n Reynolds; v. 2-3: Translation from the French by SiaÌ,n Reynolds. Includes bibliographical references and index. v. 1. Th…
By examining in detail the material life of pre-industrial peoples around the world, Fernand Braudel significantly changed the way historians view their subject. Volume I describes food and drink, dress and housing, demography and family structure, energy and technology, money a…