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3 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Volume 3: -- Foreword -- Divisions Of Space And Time In Europe: -- Economies In Space: The World-Economies: -- World-economies -- There have always been world-economies -- Some ground rules -- Rule One: Boundaries change only slowly -- Rule Two: Dominant capitalist city always lies at the center -- Rule Two (continued): Cities take it in turns to lead -- Rule Two (continued): Power and influence of cities may vary -- Rule Three: There is always a hierarchy of zones within a world-economy -- Rule Three (continued): Von Thunen's zones -- Rule Three (continued): Spatial arrangement of the world-economy -- Rule Three (continued): Do neutral zones exist? -- Rule Three (continued): Do neutral zone exist? -- Rule Three (continued): Envelope and infrastructure -- World-Economy: An Order Among Other Orders: -- Economic order and the international division of labor -- State: political power and economic power -- Empire and world-economy -- War and the zones of the world-economy -- Societies and world-economy -- Cultural order World-economy model is certainly a valid one -- World-Economy And Divisions Of Time: -- Rhythms of the 'conjuncture -- Fluctuations across a spatial sounding-broad -- Secular trend -- Explanatory chronology of the world economies -- Kondratieff cycles and the secular trend -- Can the long-term conjuncture be explained? -- Past and present -- City-Centred Economies Of The European Past: Before And After Venice: -- First European World-Economy: -- European expansion from the eleventh century -- World-economy and bi-polarity -- Northern complex: the heyday of Bruges -- Northern complex: the rise of the Hansa -- Other pole of attraction: the Italian cities -- Interlude: the Champagne fairs -- France's lost opportunity -- Belated Rise Of Venice: -- Genoa versus Venice -- Venice reigns supreme -- World-economy centred on Venice -- Venice's responsibility -- Galere da mercato -- Venetian model of capitalism -- Labor in Venice -- Hand industry become Venice's major activity? -- Turkish peril -- Unexpected Rise Of Portugal; Or From Venice To Antwerp: -- Traditional explanation -- New interpretations -- Antwerp: a world capital created by outside agency -- Stages in Antwerp's career -- Antwerp's first experience of expansion and disappointment -- Antwerp's second boom and slump -- Antwerp's industrial phase -- Originality of Antwerp -- Putting The Record Straight: The Age Of The Genoese: -- Screen of barren mountains -- Operating by remote control -- Balancing act -- Genoa's discreet rule over Europe -- Reasons for the Genoese success -- Genoese withdrawal -- Genoa survives -- Back to the world-economy -- City-Centred Economies Of The European Past: Amsterdam: -- United Provinces: The Economy Begins At Home: -- Strip of land, lacking in natural wealth -- Agricultural achievement -- High-voltage urban economy -- Amsterdam -- Variegated population -- Fisheries from the first -- Dutch fleet -- Can the United Provinces be called a 'state' -- Internal structures: little change -- Taxing the poor -- United Provinces and the outside world -- When business was king -- Traders To Europe, Traders to the World: -- Seeds of success hand all been sown by 1585 -- Rest of Europe and the Mediterranean -- Dutch versus the Portuguese, or the art of the takeover bid -- Coherence of trade within the Dutch Empire -- Success In Asia, Lack Of Success In America: -- Struggle and success -- Rise and fall of the VOC -- Why the collapse in the eighteenth century? -- Failure in the New World: the limits of Dutch success -- World-Domination And Capitalism: -- What was good for the entrepot trade was good for Amsterdam -- Commodities and credit -- Commission trade -- Acceptance trade -- Loans mania or the perversion of capital -- Change of perspective: away from Amsterdam -- Baltic countries -- France versus Holland: an unequal struggle -- England and Holland -- Outside Europe: the East Indies -- Is it possible to generalize? -- On The Decline Of Amsterdam: -- Crises of 1763, 1772-1773, 1780-1783 -- Batavian revolution -- National Markets: -- Elements And Compounds: -- Hierarchy of units -- Provincial units and markets -- Nation-state, yes-but the national market? -- Internal customs barriers -- Against a priori definitions -- Territorial economy and the city-centered economy -- Weights And Measures: -- Three variables, three sets of dimensions -- Three ambiguous concepts -- Orders of magnitude and correlations -- National debt and GNP -- Some other equations -- From consumption to GNP -- Frank Spooner's calculations -- Visible continuities -- Frances: A Victim Of Her Size: -- Diversity and unity -- Natural and artificial links -- Primacy of Politics -- Was France simply too big? -- Paris plus Lyon, Lyon plus Paris -- Paris takes the crown -- Plea for a differential history -- For and against the Rouen-Geneva line -- Border zones, coastal and continental -- Towns of the other France -- French interior -- Interior colonized by the periphery -- England's Trading Supremacy: -- How England become an island -- Pound sterling -- London creates the national market and is created by it -- How England became Great Britain -- England's greatness and the national debt -- From the treaty of Versailles (1783) to the Eden Treaty (1786) -- Statistics: a contribution but not a solution -- For And Against Europe: The Rest Of The World: -- Americas; Playing For The Highest Stakes Of All: -- America's wide-open spaces: hostile but promising -- Regional or national markets -- Patterns of slavery -- When the colonies worked for Europe -- When the colonies worked against Europe -- Conflict over industry -- English colonies choose liberty -- Competition and rivalry in trade -- Exploitation of America by Spain and Portugal -- Spanish America reconsidered -- Spanish Empire taken in hand again -- Treasure of treasures -- Neither feudalism nor capitalism? 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Black Africa: Collaborator As Well As Victim?: -- Western half of Africa -- Black Africa: isolated yet accessible -- From the coast to the interior -- Three-cornered traffic and its terms of trade -- End of the slave trade -- Russian World-Economy: A World Apart: -- Return of the Russian economy to quasi-autonomy -- Strong state -- Yoke of serfdom in Russia: an ever-increasing burden -- Market and rural society -- Small-town society -- World-economy-but what kind of world-economy? -- Invention of Siberia -- Inferiorities and weaknesses -- Price of European intrusion -- Turkish Empire: -- Foundations of a world-economy -- Scale of European penetration of the Turkish Empire -- Land of caravans -- Turkish waters: a well-protected sector -- Merchants serving the Ottoman Empire -- Economic decadence, political decadence -- Far East: Greatest Of All The World-Economies: -- Fourth world-economy -- India's self-inflicted conquest -- Gold and silver, strength or weakness? -- European assault force: merchants with a difference -- Trading posts, factories, supercargoes -- How to get at the real history of the Far East? -- Villages of India -- Artisans and industry -- National market -- Significance of the Mogul Empire -- Political and non-political reasons for the fall of the Mogul Empire -- India's decline in the nineteenth century -- India and china: caught in a super-world-economy -- Malacca's hour of glory -- New centers of the Far East -- Is Any Conclusion Possible?: -- Industrial Revolution And Growth: -- Some Relevant Comparisons: -- Revolution: a complicated and ambiguous term -- Downstream from the industrial revolution: the under-developed countries -- Upstream from the English industrial revolution: revolutions that came to nothing -- Alexandrian Egypt -- Earliest industrial revolution in Europe: horses and mills, from the eleventh to the thirteenth century -- Age of Agricola and Leonardo da Vinci: a revolution in embryo -- John U Nef and the first British industrial revolution 1560-1640 -- Industrial Revolution In Britain, Sector By Sector: -- British agriculture, a crucial factor -- Demographic revival -- Technology, a necessary but probably not sufficient condition -- Why the cotton revolution should not be underestimated -- Victory in long-distance trade -- Spread of inland transport -- Mills of history grind exceedingly slow -- Beyond The Industrial Revolution: -- Types of growth -- How can growth be explained? -- Growth and the division of labor -- Division of labor: the end of the road for the putting-out system -- Industrialists -- British economy and society by sector -- Division of labor and the geography of Britain -- Finance and capitalism -- How important was the short-term economic climate? -- Material progress and living standards -- By Way Of Conclusion: Past And Present: -- Capitalism and the long-term -- Capitalism and the social context -- Can capitalism survive? -- Conclusion to end conclusions: capitalism and the market economy -- Notes -- Index. |
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Rev. translation of: Civilisation matérielle, économie et capitalisme : XVe-XVIIIe siècle. |
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Vol. 1: Translation from the French revised by Siân Reynolds; v. 2-3: Translation from the French by Siân Reynolds. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Volume 1: Structures of everyday life: the limits of the possible -- Volume 2: Wheels of commerce -- Volume 3: Perspective of the world. |
| Summary |
Rev. translation of: Civilisation mateÌ#x81;rielle, eÌ#x81;conomie et capitalisme : XVe-XVIIIe sieÌ€cle.Vol. 1: Translation from the French revised by SiaÌ‚n Reynolds; v. 2-3: Translation from the French by SiaÌ‚n Reynolds. Includes bibliographical references and index. v. 1. The structures of everyday life : the limits of the possible -- v. 2. The wheels of commerce -- v. 3. The perspective of the world. |
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Economic history.
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Social history.
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Civilization, Modern -- History.
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Civilization, Modern. (OCoLC)fst00863073
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Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
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Social history. (OCoLC)fst01122498
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Civilisation matérielle, économie et capitalisme. English
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Civilization & capitalism, fifteenth-eighteenth century |
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Structures of everyday life: the limits of the possible.
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Wheels of commerce.
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Perspective of the world.
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Online version: Braudel, Fernand. Civilisation matérielle, économie et capitalisme. English. Civilization and capitalism, 15th-18th century. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Harper & Row, 1982-1984 (OCoLC)558410272 |
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0060148454 (v. 1) |
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9780060148454 (v. 1) |
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0060150912 (v. 2) |
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9780060150914 (v. 2) |
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0060153172 (v. 3) |
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9780060153175 (v. 3) |
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