Background
Braudel, Fernand was born on August 24, 1902 in Lumeville, France.
( The focus of Fernand Braudel's great work is the Medite...)
The focus of Fernand Braudel's great work is the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixteenth century, but Braudel 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. Braudel's scope embraces the natural world and material life, economics, demography, politics, and diplomacy.
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Braudel, Fernand, Wheels of Commerce, The: Civilization & Capitalism, 15th -18th Century
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This concluding volume triumphantly completes Braudel's great trilogy on the social and economic history of the world from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution. Following his highly praised The Structures of Everyday Life and The Wheels of Commerce (winner of the 1983 Los Angeles Times Book Award for History), Braudel now charts the growth of the world economy from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Most of the usual matter of history - politics, wars, dynastic rivalries, conflict of religious beliefs and secular ideologies - is left out. What is rendered here with the eye and brush of a master is the human activity that underlies the business of life: the bustle of the market, the calm of the great manipulators of capital, the labor of the slave, the peasant and the factory worker of the early industrial age; the fashions of the rich, the rise of the great cities and financial centers - Genoa, Venice, Amsterdam, London - and the character and development of the trade routes that nourish them; the movements of population, the ebb and flow of wealth, the slide into poverty and decay. The sharply drawn, freshly colored glimpses of individual lives and fortunes that compose this vast moving tapestry reflect the extraordinary vivacity of a historian whose reach of mind is matched by his power to put history under the microscope. The visual impact of his work is not confined to the writing. Maps and graphics are used with characteristic skill to illuminate a point or to demonstrate an argument. The text is profusely illustrated with contemporary prints and drawings from around the world. The translator, Sian Reynolds, who won the Scott-Moncrieff Prize for her rendering of Volume II (The Wheels of Commerce), has once again reproduced in English the speed, vigor, and ease of a great stylist.
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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.
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The first English translation of Ecrits sur l'histoirea collection of essays written over a twenty-year period following publication of Braudel's masterwork, La, MéditerranéeOn History sets forth Braudel's reflections on the intellectual framework of his historical studies. Braudel calls on the historian to penetrate beneath the surface of political events to uncover and measure the forces shaping collective existence. Cycles of production, wages and prices, grids of communication and trade, fluctuations and climate, demographic trends, popular beliefsall of these phenomena are proper subjects of the historian's investigations. It is only through study of the longue durée, Braudel argues, that one can discern structure, the supports and obstacles, the limits and his experience cannot escape. "The great French historian Fernand Braudel has done what only giants can: he has made Western man confront the problem of timeindividual time, historical time, relative time, real time. . . . Braudel, more than any other historian, has wrestled with man's conception of time over time. . . What a magnificent fight he has fought."Virginia Quarterly Review
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Braudel, Fernand was born on August 24, 1902 in Lumeville, France.
Doctor, University Sao Paulo. Doctor, Yale University. Doctor, Cambridge University.
Educated, Lycee Voltaire, Paris, Sorbonne.
Professor, Algiers, 1923—1932. With Lycees Condorcet and Henri IV, Paris, 1932—1935. Member Faculty Arts, Sao Paulo, 1935—1938.
With Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 1938—1939, since 1945. Professor College de France, 1949—1972. Honorary professor, since 1972.
Member Commission des Archives diplomatiques, since 1975.
( The focus of Fernand Braudel's great work is the Medite...)
(This is the first of three fascinating volumes in which B...)
( The first English translation of Ecrits sur l'histoire...)
(Written from a consciously anti-enthnocentric approach, t...)
(This concluding volume triumphantly completes Braudel's g...)
(Probes the forces that limited the material wealth of the...)
(Braudel, Fernand, Wheels of Commerce, The: Civilization &...)
Member Faculty of Arts, Sao Paulo, 1935-1938. Member Commission des Archives diplomatiques, 1975.
Married Paule Pradel, 1933. 2 children.