fernand braudel

"Braudel's Mediterranean is a tour de force, one of the classics of this century's historical writing."--Charles Tilly, author of As Sociology Meets H

By examining in detail the material life of pre-industrial people around the world, the author significantly changed the way historians view their sub

The Italian Renaissance in Europe and beyond

Focuses on the development of mechanisms of exchange - shops, markets, trade networks, and banking - in the pre-industrial stages of capitalism.

Investigates what Braudel terms world-economies - the economic dominance of a particular city at different periods of history, from Venice to Amsterda

Beethoven en zijn vriend Schindler stopten tijdens een wandeling bij een kabbelend beekje en Beethoven zei: ‘Hoor je de zang van de merel en de koekoe

A survey of the civilizations of the modern world in terms of the broad sweep and continuities of history. It is written from a consciously anti-enthn

" Tous les jours, deux mois avant le dernier moment, ils complotent de travailler et d'accoucher de grandes oeuvres. Mais ces gigantesques complots av