Looks at how geography has shaped the history of the Mediterranean, focusing on life in the sixteenth century

The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean world in the age of Philip II;

Politics & Social Sciences

BRAUDEL, Fernand

Social Sciences

Collins

The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II Volume II Two 2

Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Vol. 2

Business & Money

Reynolds, Siân

Economics

This book focuses on the Mediterranean world of 400 years ago, but the perspective stretches back to the world of Homer, and the foreground reaches up to the 20th century. In considering the Mediterranean's history it is not treaties, wars and dynastic marriages that claim the author's attention, but such questions as how long it took for a cargo ship to work its way from Alicante to Alexandria, how much it cost to send a special courier from Madrid to Paris, how people lived and what they lived on and what happened in cities like Venice, Naples or Constantinople.

The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II

Ollard, Richard Lawrence (abridged by)

Harpercollins

<p>The concluding volume of the trilogy charts the growth of the world economy from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century concentrating on the human activity that underlies the business of life - the bustle of the market, the great manipulators of capital, the labour of the slave, the peasant and factory workers, the fashions of the rich and the rise of the great financial centres of Genoa, Venice, Amsterdam and London.</p>

The Perspective of the World (Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century)

History

HarperCollins, Publishers

<p>The first volume in this beautifully illustrated and highly acclaimed economic and social history of the world from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution covers the richness and complexity of everyday life - food, drink, dress, housing, money, the development of towns - with the technique of a pointilliste.</p>

Civilization and Capitalism: The Limits of the Possible: The Structures of Everyday

Kochan, Miriam

World

In this personal approach to the history of France the author shows himself a part of all that he has met. He describes the geographical circumstances of the country, her fertility, her internal and external communications and the villages, towns and cities in which her people gathered. As he describes the situation he questions - why did Paris become the capital of France rather than Toulouse? What is a frontier? What did it mean in the 15th century? How did France become unified in the way that she did? Thus he shows how all this, which lies behind the outline, determined the shape of France. The author also wrote " The Mediterranean" and "Civilization and Capitalism".

The Identity of France, Vol. 1: History and Environment

Europe

The last book written by the French social historian, Fernand Braudel. It is the second volume in a work which provides a perspective on his own life and his perception of the everyday world his readers share with him. It is the most personal of all his works.

The identity of France

Reference

Atlases & Maps

Fontana Press

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

Harper-Torchbooks

Probes the forces that limited the material wealth of the masses from the fifteenth through the eighteenth century

Capitalism and Material Life, 1400-1800

Sociology

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The Wheels of Commerce (Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. II)

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