The Perspective of the World: Civilization and Capitalism, 15Th-18th Century: 3 - Softcover

Braudel, Fernand

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060912960 ISBN 13: 9780060912963

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1986

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

"This book is alive, not only with the author's lightly worn learning and urbane style but with his human sympathies . . . and his acute awareness of contemporary analogies."--"Economist

From the Back Cover:

The reader will find in it plenty of descriptions, narratives, images, developments, regular patterns and breaks in those patterns-but from start to finish I have tried to refrain from the urge to describe everything, for the mere pleasure of drawing a picture, underlining a point or directing attention to a telling detail.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0060912960
• ISBN 13: 9780060912963
• Binding: Paperback