Civilization And Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Volume I: The Structures Of Everyday Life, The Limits Of The Possible

Fernand Braudel

ISBN 10: 000686077X / ISBN 13: 9780006860778

Published by FontanaPress, 1985

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Paperback edition in the Civilisation and Capitalism series, 1985, in overall very good unread condition with only slight signs of age, handling and storage - fading to spine. Binding tight and appears almost unopened and spine remains uncreased. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; text, maps and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book. Seller Inventory # 240074

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Title: Civilization And Capitalism, 15th-18th ...

Publisher: FontanaPress

Publication Date: 1985

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis:

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

From the Back Cover:

In the three fascinating volumes which make up 'Civilization and Capitalism', Fernand Braudel, indisputably the greatest of living historians, offers nothing less than an economic and social history of the world from the Middle Ages to the industrial Revolution. And what he offers is, like everything he writes, entirely new.

This first volume is, in the author's words, 'a sort of weighing up of the world, an evaluation of what was possible in the pre-industrial world of which the most important is the condition imposed by material life.'

"On neither side of the Atlantic does there live a man or woman with so much knowledge of the past as Braudel, or with a greater sense of its aptness to the occasion, to the intellectual occasion at hand"
PETER LASLETT, 'Guardian'

"Braudel wrote a masterpiece in 1949 and he has now written another in three volumes… a brilliant survey of demography, urbanisation, transport, technology, food, clothing, housing, money and business, social classes, state power and international trade in the 15th to the 18th centuries. It is so enjoyable and interesting, you may assume that a profession capable of producing such work has no need to worry about its future"
THEODORE ZELDIN, 'Listener'

"I know of no better account of the ordinary processes of living"
JOHN VINCENT, 'Sunday Times'