Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. III: The Perspective of the WorldBy examining in detail the material life of pre-industrial peoples around the world, Fernand Braudel significantly changed the way historians view their subject. Originally published in the early 1980s, Civilization traces the social and economic history of the world from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, although his primary focus is Europe. Braudel skims over politics, wars, etc., in favor of examining life at the grass roots: food, drink, clothing, housing, town markets, money, credit, technology, the growth of towns and cities, and more. Volume I describes food and drink, dress and housing, demography and family structure, energy and technology, money and credit, and the growth of towns. |
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Contents
THE CITYCENTRED ECONOMIES OF | 20 |
DIVISIONS OF SPACE AND TIME IN EUROPE | 21 |
an order among other orders | 45 |
Empire and worldeconomy 54 | 65 |
The worldeconomy and divisions of time | 71 |
The rhythms of the conjuncture 71 Fluctuations | 78 |
THE CITYCENTRED ECONOMIES OF | 89 |
The worldeconomy and bipolarity 96 The north | 115 |
a contribution | 382 |
hostile but promising | 388 |
When the colonies worked for Europe | 399 |
The conflict over industry 403 The English colon | 413 |
nor capitalism? | 425 |
iso | 438 |
A strong state 444 The yoke of serfdom | 452 |
The invention of Siberia 455 Inferiori | 462 |
Genoa versus Venice 118 Venice reigns supreme | 124 |
in Venice 132 Had industry become Venices major | 136 |
The traditional explanation 138 New interpreta | 143 |
Antwerps second boom and slump | 150 |
the age of the Genoese | 157 |
A screen of barren mountains 157 Operating | 169 |
the economy begins at home | 177 |
A strip of land lacking in natural wealth 177 Agri | 195 |
Taxing the poor 200 The United Provinces | 205 |
The Dutch versus the Portuguese or the art of | 211 |
Success in Asia lack of success in America | 220 |
Struggle and success 221 The rise and fall of | 232 |
Commodities and credit 239 | 243 |
On the decline of Amsterdam | 266 |
The crises of 1763 17723 17803 267 The Bata | 273 |
NATIONAL MARKETS | 277 |
Weights and measures | 298 |
Three variables three sets of dimensions 299 Three | 307 |
Visible continuities | 314 |
Diversity and unity 315 Natural and artificial links | 320 |
simply too big? 324 Paris plus Lyon Lyon plus | 344 |
The French interior 347 The interior colonized | 351 |
How England became an island 353 The pound | 365 |
and is created by it 365 How England became Great | 375 |
Port of St Petersburg 1778 | 466 |
The foundations of a worldeconomy 467 The scale | 471 |
Top Hane in Istanbul | 481 |
a well | 482 |
The fourth worldeconomy 488 Indias selfinflicted | 491 |
Native pirates off the Malabar coast | 494 |
with a difference 491 Trading posts factories | 497 |
Artisans and industry 503 A national market | 509 |
Travelling in India sixteenth century | 510 |
Macao early seventeenth century | 531 |
Is any conclusion possible? | 533 |
A thirteenthcentury grindstone | 545 |
The industrial revolution in Britain sector by sector | 556 |
Brickworks in England | 561 |
British agriculture a crucial factor 558 The demo | 571 |
Robert Owens cotton mill at New Lanark | 574 |
Victory in longdistance trade 575 The spread | 587 |
the end of the road | 593 |
British economy and society by sector 598 | 599 |
The Coal Exchange in London | 606 |
Finance and capitalism 601 How important | 617 |
Notes | 633 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. III: The Perspective of the World Volume 3 of Civilisation matérielle, économie et capitalisme, Fernand Braudel Volume 3 of Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Fernand Braudel Volume 3 of Civilization and capitalism, Fernand Braudel |
| Author | Fernand Braudel |
| Translated by | Siân Reynold |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 1992 |
| ISBN | 0520081161, 9780520081161 |
| Length | 704 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Economic History History / Civilization History / Europe / General History / World Social Science / Sociology / General |
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