The focus of this work is the Mediterranean world in the second half of the 16th century. However, the book also ranges back in history to the world of Odysseus and forward to our time, moving out from the Mediterranean area to the New World and other destinations of Mediterranean traders.
Fernand Braudel rejected a narrow focus on Western warfare, diplomacy and power politics, and opened up economic and social history to influences from anthropology, sociology, geography, psychology and linguistics. In this book, Braudel examines the nature of "cultures" and "civilizations", their continuities and transformations. He then goes on ...
Volume one in a three-volume set that examines the material life of pre-industrial peoples around the world. This volume describes food and drink, dress and housing, demography and family structure, energy and technology, money and credit and the growth of towns.
The focus of this work is the Mediterranean world in the second half of the 16th century. However, the book also ranges back in history to the world of Odysseus and forward to our time, moving out from the Mediterranean area to the New World and other destinations of Mediterranean traders.
This is the story of the Mediterranean in ancient times, from its geological beginnings to the great civilizations that flourished along its shores. With its extraordinary depth and range of knowledge, Braudel's superb history brings to life as never before the beginnings of Western culture. 15 maps. 4 illustrations. of photos.
"In this concise book... Braudel summarizes the broad themes of his three-volume Civilisation materielle et capitalisme, 1400-1800 and offers his reflections on the historian's craft and on the nature of the historical imagination... Taken as a whole, the book is provocative and stimulating. On occasion, it rises to revelation when two or three ...
Volume two in a three-volume set that examines the material life of pre-industrial peoples around the world. This volume looks at the development of mechanisms of exchange - shops, markets, trade networks, and banking - in the pre-industrial stages of capitalism.
Volume three in a three-volume set that examines in detail the material life of pre-industrial peoples around the world. This volume investigates "world economies" - the economic dominance of a particular city at different periods of history, from Venice to Amsterdam, London and New York.
By 1450, all of Europe and the Mediterranean were influenced by the teachings, the economies and the intellect of Italy. Its predominance had been achieved through a long history of effort, patience and strategic victories. How had Italy, or rather a handful of Italian cities, a few men all told, succeed in acquiring and maintaining a position of ...
En 1985, el Centro de Encuentros de Chateauvallon realiz un coloquio en torno a tres preocupaciones fundamentales de Fernand Braudel: el Mediterrneo, Francia, el capitalismo. Entre otros, asistieron Alain Denis, Paul Fabra, Celso Furtado, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie. Se renen los dilogos y las polmicas entre Braudel y sus colegas.
Para contener los libros de historia menos academicos y mas divulgativos nacio en 1997 esta coleccion que ha ido creciendo con extraordinaria rapidez, ya que en cinco anos se han publicado titulos que han alcanzado, en general, una extraordinaria difusion. Entre ellos, las tres famosas eras de Hobsbawm: La era de la revolucion; La era del capital ...
Habia en Constantinopla una colonia interlope de renegados que vendian a la Europa cristiana noticias mas o menos exactas del mundo oriental. Cuando, el 29 de marzo de 1929, el joven Fernand Braudel empieza a elaborar archivos a partir de sus primeras investigaciones, de las que se han extraido estas lineas, no sabe todavia que el Mediterraneo ...
La convivencia en Espaa de poblaciones tan distintas como la cristiana y la morisca llev con el tiempo a una virulenta polmica cuyos temas se agrupan en dos espacios: los de carcter estrictamente teolgico (la trinidad, la divinidad de Cristo, la virginidad de Mara, la autoridad del Papa), y los de carcter ritual o de costumbres (los sacramentos, ...
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