Capitalism and Material Life, 1400-1800
Capitalism and Material Life, 1400-1800

Author: Fernand Braudel

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13:

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This work is concerned with the quest for progress in daily life throughout the world between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Professor Braudel studies the demographic expansion that outstripped the production of goods, and the many other factors that brought about the low subsistence level of the majority of people in contrast with the luxurious living standards of the wealthy and privileged few; the effects of famine and plague; the gradual expansion of the towns in a basically agricultural economy. In this first of a two-volume work deals with population; staple diets throughout the world; housing and clothes; the spread of technology in particular, sources of power; communications; early economies and kinds of money; towns in East and West. The second volume will deal with the rise and expansion of capitalism.

A History of Civilizations
A History of Civilizations

Author: Fernand Braudel

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1995-04-01

Total Pages: 641

ISBN-13: 0140124896

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Written from a consciously anti-enthnocentric approach, this fascinating work is a survey of the civilizations of the modern world in terms of the broad sweep and continuities of history, rather than the "event-based" technique of most other texts.

Out of Italy
Out of Italy

Author: Fernand Braudel

Publisher: Europa Editions

Published: 2019-07-16

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1609455355

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From the author of Memory and the Mediterranean, a comprehensive history of the Italian city states from 1450 to 1650. In the fifteenth century, even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, “Italy” exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean. Its cultural, economic, and political dominance is utterly astonishing and unique in world history. Viewing the Italy?the many Italies?of that time through the lens of today allows us to gather a fragmented, multi-faceted, and seemingly contradictory history into a single unifying narrative that speaks to our current reality as much as it does to a specific historical period. This is what the acclaimed French historian, Fernand Braudel, achieves here. He brings to life the two extraordinary centuries that span the Renaissance, Mannerism, and the Baroque and analyzes the complex interaction between art, science, politics, and commerce during Italy’s extraordinary cultural flowering.

Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

Author: David Harvey

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 019936026X

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David Harvey examines the foundational contradictions of capital, and reveals the fatal contradictions that are now inexorably leading to its end

Law and the Rise of Capitalism
Law and the Rise of Capitalism

Author: Michael Tigar

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2000-06

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1583670300

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Tigar (Washington College of Law, American U.) has written a new introduction and extended afterword that update this Marxist analysis of law and jurisprudence, originally published in 1977. The study traces the role of law and lawyers in the rise of the European bourgeoisie. The new material discusses human rights issues and social movements over the past two decades, including political prisoners and the death penalty. c. Book News Inc.

The Mediterranean in the Ancient World
The Mediterranean in the Ancient World

Author: Fernand Braudel

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2002-04-25

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 014193722X

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This general reader's history of the ancient mediterranean combines a thorough grasp of the scholarship of the day with an great historian's gift for imaginative reconstruction and inspired analogy. Extensive notes allow the reader to appreciate thestate of scholarship at the time of writing, the scale and breadth of Braudel's learning and the points where orthodoxy has changed, sometimes vindicating Braudel, sometimes proving him wrong. Above all the book offers us the chance to situate Braudel's mediterranean, born of a lifetime's love and knowledge, more clearly in the climates of the sea's history.