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

Fernand Braudel

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9780002163033: Civilization and Capitalism: The Limits of the Possible: The Structures of Everyday

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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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9780006860778: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. I: The Structures of Everyday Life

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ISBN 10:  000686077X ISBN 13:  9780006860778
Publisher: Harper & Row, 1985
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