Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. I: The Structure of Everyday LifeBy 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. |
Contents
I | 31 |
III | 51 |
IV | 70 |
V | 92 |
VI | 104 |
VII | 108 |
VIII | 145 |
IX | 158 |
XIX | 334 |
XX | 336 |
XXI | 373 |
XXII | 385 |
XXIV | 415 |
XXV | 430 |
XXVI | 436 |
XXVII | 441 |
X | 163 |
XI | 172 |
XII | 183 |
XIII | 187 |
XIV | 227 |
XV | 266 |
XVII | 283 |
XVIII | 311 |
XXVIII | 448 |
XXIX | 457 |
XXX | 470 |
XXXI | 479 |
XXXII | 509 |
XXXIII | 525 |
XXXIV | 559 |
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Page 29 - time observed, we either have the event or the everyday happening. The event is, or is taken to be, unique; the everyday happening is repeated, and the more often it is repeated the more likely it is to become a generality or rather a structure. It pervades society at all levels, and
Page 23 - the market economy: this is that elementary basic activity which went on everywhere and the volume of which is truly fantastic. This rich zone, like a layer covering the earth, I have called for want of a better expression material life or material civilization.