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The structures of everyday life : the limits of the possible / Fernand Braudel ; translation from the French revised by Siân Reynolds.

Braudel, Fernand. (Author).

Summary:

This social and economic history of Europe from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution organizes a multitude of details to paint a rich picture of everyday life.

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  • ISBN: 0060148454 :
  • ISBN: 9780060148454
  • ISBN: 0520081145 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780520081147 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 623 pages : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Harper & Row, ©1981.

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General Note:
Rev. translation of: Les structures du quotidien, le possible et l'impossible.
The translation by Miriam Kochan of an earlier version appeared in English in 1973, under the title: Capitalism and material life, 1400-1800.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Weight of numbers -- Guessing the world population -- A scale of reference -- The eighteenth century: watershed of biological regimes -- The many against the few -- Daily bread -- Wheat -- Rice -- Maize -- The dietary revolution of the eighteenth century -- The rest of the world -- Superfluity and sufficiency: food and drink -- Eating habits: luxury and the foods of the masses -- Drinks, stimulants, and drugs -- Superfluity and sufficiency: houses, clothes, and fashion -- Houses throughout the world -- Interiors -- Costume and fashion -- The spread of technology: sources of energy, metallurgy -- The key problem: sources of energy -- Iron: a poor relation -- The spread of technology: revolution and delays -- Three great technological innovations (gunpowder, moveable type, navigation) -- Transport -- Problems of the history of technology -- Money -- Imperfect currencies and economies -- Outside Europe: early economies and metallic money -- Some rules of the currency game -- Paper money and instruments of credit -- Towns and cities -- Towns: the problems of definition -- The originality of Western towns -- The big cities -- Conclusion.

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