The second of a trilogy by a man whom Hugh-Trevor Roper described as 'the greatest historian we have' Lavishly illustrated with b&w plates, maps and diagrams Phoenix Press December lead
Fernand Braudel was France's greatest historian. He was the founder ' along with March Bloch and Lucian Febvre ' of Annales, the journal which changed the face of historical writing in the 1960s.
This book concludes French historian Braudel's groundbreaking trilogy, in which he concentrates on the ordinary human activities that underlie modern politics, commerce and culture. Here he tells the story of Western Europe's gradual domination of international trade in the modern era. ``A magisterial work,'' PW observed. (May)
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