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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, , the development of towns - with the technique of a pointilliste.
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Fernand Braudel was France's greatest historian. He was the founder - along with March Bloch and Lucian Febvre - of Annales, the journal which changed the face of historical writing in the 1960s.
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The structures of everyday life : the limits of the possible / Fernand Braudel; translation from the French by Siân Reynolds
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Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 623 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm. Series: Civilization and capitalism . . 15th-18th Century ; v. 1ContentsPartial contents 1. Weight of numbers -- 2. Daily bread -- 3. Superfluity and sufficiency : food and drink -- 4. Superfluity and sufficiency : houses, clothes and fashion -- 5. The spread of technology : sources of energy, metallurgy -- 6. The spread of technology : revolution and delays -- 7. Money -- 8. Towns and cities -- Conclusion. Subjects: Social history Medieval, 500-1500. Civilization, Modern History. Economic history 1600-1750. 3 Kg. Seller Inventory # 442383
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Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 623 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm. Series: Civilization and capitalism . . 15th-18th Century ; v. 1ContentsPartial contents 1. Weight of numbers -- 2. Daily bread -- 3. Superfluity and sufficiency : food and drink -- 4. Superfluity and sufficiency : houses, clothes and fashion -- 5. The spread of technology : sources of energy, metallurgy -- 6. The spread of technology : revolution and delays -- 7. Money -- 8. Towns and cities -- Conclusion. Subjects: Social history Medieval, 500-1500. Civilization, Modern History. Economic history 1600-1750. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 442383
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Civilization and Capitalism: The Limits of the Possible: The Structures of Everyday (v. 1)
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