The Wheels of Commerce. Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Volume II

The wheels of commerce, vol.2: civilisation and capitalism 15th-18th

Business & Money

Fernand Braudel

Economics

HARPER/COLLINS

This book presents an economic and social history of the world from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution.

Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. I: The Structures of Everyday Life

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Harper&Row

This concluding volume triumphantly completes Braudel's great trilogy on the social and economic history of the world from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution. Following his highly praised The Structures of Everyday Life and The Wheels of Commerce (winner of the 1983 Los Angeles Times Book Award for History), Braudel now charts the growth of the world economy from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Most of the usual matter of history - politics, wars, dynastic rivalries, conflict of religious beliefs and secular ideologies - is left out. What is rendered here with the eye and brush of a master is the human activity that underlies the business of life: the bustle of the market, the calm of the great manipulators of capital, the labor of the slave, the peasant and the factory worker of the early industrial age; the fashions of the rich, the rise of the great cities and financial centers - Genoa, Venice, Amsterdam, London - and the character and development of the trade routes that nourish them; the movements of population, the ebb and flow of wealth, the slide into poverty and decay. The sharply drawn, freshly colored glimpses of individual lives and fortunes that compose this vast moving tapestry reflect the extraordinary vivacity of a historian whose reach of mind is matched by his power to put history under the microscope. The visual impact of his work is not confined to the writing. Maps and graphics are used with characteristic skill to illuminate a point or to demonstrate an argument. The text is profusely illustrated with contemporary prints and drawings from around the world. The translator, Sian Reynolds, who won the Scott-Moncrieff Prize for her rendering of Volume II (The Wheels of Commerce), has once again reproduced in English the speed, vigor, and ease of a great stylist.

The Perspective of the World

History

World

Fontana Press

The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip 2 vol 2

Fontanna Press Fifth imp.1987

The focus of Fernand Braudel's great work is the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixteenth century, but Braudel ranges back in history to the world of Odysseus and forward to our time, moving out from the Mediterranean area to the New World and other destinations of Mediterranean traders. Braudel's scope embraces the natural world and material life, economics, demography, politics, and diplomacy.

The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Vol. 1

Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip Second

This is the first of three fascinating volumes in which Braudel, the renowned historian and celebrated author of The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World, offers what is in effect an economic and social history of the world from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution. Like everything he writes, it is new, stimulating and sparkles like champagne.Braudel's technique, it has been said, is that of a pointilliste. Myriads of separate details, sharp glimpses of reality experienced by real people, are seen miraculously to orchestrate themselves into broad rhythms that underlie and transcend the excitements and struggles of particular periods. Braudel sees the past as we see the present - only in a longer perspective and over a wider field.The perspective is that of the possible, of the actual material limitations to human life in any given time or place. It is the every¬day, the habitual - the obvious that is so obvious it has hitherto been neglected by historians - that Braudel claims for a new and vast and enriching province of history. Food and drink, dress and housing, demography and family structure, energy and technology, money and credit, and, above all, the growth of towns, that powerful agent of social and economic development, are described in all the richness and complexity of real life.The intensely visual quality of Braudel's understanding of history is brought into sharper focus by the remarkable series of illustrations that of themselves would make this book incomparable

The Structures of Everyday Life: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century Volume 1

HarperTrade

The Wheels of Commerce: Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Volume 2

The Wheels of Commerce: Civilization & Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 2 (English, French and French Edition)

A new approach to the history of France, looking at the country's physical and geographical features as factors which have shaped its past. Braudel questions the origins of frontiers, the growth of towns, how Paris became the capital and how France's unification came about.

The Identity of France: Volume One: History and Environment

Harper Row Publishers

The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Vol I

Harper-Torchbooks

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