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Civilization & Capitalism, 15th - 18th Century, in Three Volumes: Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits of the Possible; The Wheels of Commerce; The Perspective of the World
Civilization & Capitalism, 15th - 18th Century, in Three Volumes: Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits of the Possible; The Wheels of Commerce; The Perspective of the World

Civilization & Capitalism, 15th - 18th Century, in Three Volumes: Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits of the Possible; The Wheels of Commerce; The Perspective of the World

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623; 670; 699 pp. 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. 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. 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.