The Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits of the Possible Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century Volume 1

Braudel, Fernand

ISBN 10: 0060148454 / ISBN 13: 9780060148454

Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1981

About this Item

1st Printing of the 1st US Edition (1981) with dustjacket in new Brodart cover. Clean, bright, solid, unmarked, and, in many respects, fresh in a bright, unclipped dustjacket with a little bit of edgewear. Cloth over boards with a sewn binding; b&w illustrations; 45 pp of bibliographic and narrative end notes; 623 pp; 3.25 pounds. Seller Inventory # 004263

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits ...

Publisher: Harper & Row, New York

Publication Date: 1981

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

This is the first of three fascinating volumes in which Braudel, the renowned historian and celebrated author of The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World, offers what is in effect an economic and social history of the world from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution. Like everything he writes, it is new, stimulating and sparkles like champagne. Braudel's technique, it has been said, is that of a pointilliste. Myriads of separate details, sharp glimpses of reality experienced by real people, are seen miraculously to orchestrate themselves into broad rhythms that underlie and transcend the excitements and struggles of particular periods. Braudel sees the past as we see the present - only in a longer perspective and over a wider field.The perspective is that of the possible, of the actual material limitations to human life in any given time or place. It is the every¬day, the habitual - the obvious that is so obvious it has hitherto been neglected by historians - that Braudel claims for a new and vast and enriching province of history. Food and drink, dress and housing, demography and family structure, energy and technology, money and credit, and, above all, the growth of towns, that powerful agent of social and economic development, are described in all the richness and complexity of real life. The intensely visual quality of Braudel's understanding of history is brought into sharper focus by the remarkable series of illustrations that of themselves would make this book incomparable

Language Notes:

Text: English, French (translation)