Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Volume 1. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harper & Row, New York
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780060148454ISBN:0060148454
Description: Very Good-with no DJ. 0060148454. Book is Very Good-(minus). Clean and unmarked text. Strong and sturdy binding. Appears book lightly read. Some cover edges and corners wear, chipping and very light bumps. Spine face crease and few small surface wrinkles and light bumps to spine face. Very thin and light mark on top page ends. Very slight surface shelf wear to cover.; Textbook; Vol. 1; 623 pages. read more
Edition: U.S. Edition;
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780060148454ISBN:0060148454
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Softcover; VG condition; Printed Text VG+; some light shelfwear; (shelf C14); 623pages! ; "This is an outstanding and brilliant look at the 15th to the 18th century covering the food, social classes, money and business, housing, clothing, and much more! "; read more
Description: Fine. This copy looks new! The dustcover has a really minimal bit of edge wear. I have the other two volumes listed as well, should you want the complete set. I ship quickly! read more
Edition: None Stated
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Row Publishers, New York
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780060148454ISBN:0060148454
Description: Photographs. Very Good in Very Good jacket. EX-LIBRARY. EXPECTED MARKINGS AND ATTACHMENTS. ILLUSTRATED DUST JACKET. BLACK CLOTH COVER. INTERIOR PAGES CLEAN, BRIGHT AND TIGHT. read more
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Very-good copy. NO writing or tears inside book. Illustrated throughout. NO remainder marks or price clippings. -623 pages. - read more
Edition: First US Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Row
Date Published: c1979
Description: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. Translation from the French, Revised by Sian Reynolds. Many b/w illustratio ns throughout, Indexed, 623 pages. Previous owner's name, bit of light foxing on end papers, else pages bright, a tight, solid copy, in an attractive dustjacket, in a new clear mylar DJ cover. read more
Edition: 1st Am. ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Row, New York
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780060148454ISBN:0060148454
Description: Book: Very Good. DJ: Very Good. 8vo. 623 pp. 6 7/8 x 9 1/4. Black cloth covered boards, stamped in gold on spine. Very light wear, some foxing on page edges. Glossy black dj. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780060148454ISBN:0060148454
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. nice larger size soft cover in great condition, inside text crisp & clean, & tightly bound! Text in English, French. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harper & Row, New York
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780060148454ISBN:0060148454
Description: Octavo. Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. I. Translation from the French revised by Sian Reynolds. 624 pages. Illustrated throughout. Notes. Index. Closed tears and creases on spine, light wear to covers, else a very good copy. read more
Edition: 1st U.S. Edition, 1981
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Row Publishers, New York
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780060148454ISBN:0060148454
Description: Very Good in Poor jacket. Academic, Scholarly, Research. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 623 pp. Clean, unmarked pages. Book contains extensive photos, images, and diagrams. Translated from the French by Sian Reynolds. Minor stains on bottom edge. DJ worn and torn. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper and Row, NY
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780060148454ISBN:0060148454
Description: Very Good in Very Good DJ in Very Good jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. First printing of the Harper hardcover edition. Great-looking dust-jacketed hardcover copy with NO stamps or markings. True first edition. NOT a book-club edition. Many Illustrations. Small Quarto. read more
"Those who think about the apocalypse, and wonder if it will happen to us, should read this book and be reminded that great tragedies are the norm, rather than the exception for most of human history.
I'm going to start a review of this book even though I'm not done with it, because I think I may not finish it. It's a little on the pedantic side, with the author using academese and endeavoring to prove the merits of his methodology even at the cost of readability. It has illustrations, which are nice.
For a writer, this is a good sort of book to read if one is writing about anything pre-industrial. The omnipresences of famine, plague, and wars slips our mind when we are fortunate enough to be healthy, fat, and safe. For those prone to depression, it's a bit hard to read of the endless misery and brutality of most of human existence.
Update: nearly two weeks later, and I'm still reading it. This is why I hate research. I really do. Because you read books that are informative but BORING. BORING. BORING. Really, I get that he's done a gazillion hours of research, but did he have to put everything in? And it's so Eurocentric that even I'm a little offended. I'm still learning interesting facts, like that Europe seemed to be the only place where people ruthlessly followed clothing fashions, but I'm also learning boring and useless things, like how many quintals of wheat a horse could thresh as opposed to a pair of oxen.
Don't know if I'm going to finish it or not. I feel like I've got sunk costs now, but damn, it's boring. Why oh why can't historians write well? Do they really think we're going to be impressed by big words and lots of details? Do they really think that convoluted sentence structure makes us think they're smarter? The writer is trying to cover four centuries of life, all over the world, but he skips Africa and Australia almost entirely, dwells on France overmuch, and tends to throw everything together with such poor organization that it's hard to tell which fact relates to which century.
After this I'm going to have to read some YA to cleanse my palette."
"Massive. This book is massive. But taking it apart piece by piece, it is a masterful and epic book on the history of "Western" civilization. The running theme of this text is the history of the common persons over time and around the world. It is a type of micro-history that posits a radical vision of the world and turns history as we popularly know it on its head. The chapter on cities is exhaustive and vivid. It is engaging to read because, in some ways, like E.P.Thompson, Braudel brings history to life. The reader can sense the rats that run around in the dirty cities of the Old World as though s/he was commuting through the streets two centuries ago her/himself. That is one of the valuable things about this book: it offers a useful blueprint for writing history and ethnography -- in the case of anthropologists.
The history of cities he presents demonstrate just how draining and unsustainable urban centers truly are. They are expensive to make and maintain and they require and demand a concentration of paupers within its parameters. Not only do they, like magnets, attract the poor, but create an underclass as well in order to maintain the services required for city dwellers that would otherwise be too expensive to have. These features continue to exist in much the same ways today. In this regard as well, Braudel's work is timeless and enlightening.
His discussion of population, migration, and city planning also offers further insights into the complexity of cities as conceptual categories and as living organisms -- if they can be conceived as such."
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