By examining in detail the material life of pre-industrial peoples around the world, Fernand Braudel significantly changed the way historians view their subject. Volume I describes food and drink, dress and housing, demography and family structure, energy and technology, money and credit, and the growth of towns.
By examining in detail the material life of pre-industrial peoples around the world, Fernand Braudel significantly changed the way historians view the...
The subject of The Wheels of Commerce is the development of mechanisms of exchange--shops, markets, trade networks, and banking--in the pre-industrial stages of capitalism.
The subject of The Wheels of Commerce is the development of mechanisms of exchange--shops, markets, trade networks, and banking--in the pre-ind...
Volume III investigates what Braudel terms "world-economies"the economic dominance of a particular city at different periods of history, from Venice to Amsterdam, London, New York."
Volume III investigates what Braudel terms "world-economies"the economic dominance of a particular city at different periods of history, from Venice t...
