The Perspective of the World: v. 3 (Civilization & capitalism, 15th-18th century) - Softcover

Braudel, Fernand

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ISBN 10: 0006860796 ISBN 13: 9780006860792

Publisher: Fontana Press, 1992

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This volume triumphantly completes Braudel's great trilogy, charting the history of Western society' and its contacts with a wider world from the 15th to the 18th century.

Most of the usual matter of history – politics, war, dynastic rivalries, the conflict of religious beliefs and secular ideologies – is left out. What is rendered, and that with the eye and the brush of a master, is the human activity that underlay the whole business of life: the bustle of the market, the calm of the great manipulators of capital, the labour of the slave, the peasant and the factory worker, the fashions of the rich, the rise of the great cities and financial centres, Genoa, Venice, Amsterdam, London; the character and development of the trade routes that nourished them.

"Braudel is a great historian in the sense that Louis XIV is 'Le Grand Monarque'. What he does is grand in manner and style, and he has changed the map of his subject. Not everybody will agree with all of what he is trying to do, but nobody can ignore it."
CHRISTOPHER HILL, 'New Statesman'.

"As a description of how Europe came to dominate the history of this millenium and why at the end she ceased to do so, this book is without equal and is unlikely to be surpassed."
LINDA COLLEY, 'Sunday Times'.

"This book is alive, not only with the author's lightly worn learning and urbane style, but with his human sympathies... The result is history in the grand manner"
ECONOMIST

About this edition

• Publisher: Fontana Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0006860796
• ISBN 13: 9780006860792
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 704