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Capitalism and Material Life 1400-1800
Braudel, Fernand
Publisher: Happer Colophon Books, New York, USAYear First Published: 1967 Year Published: 1975 Pages: 462pp Resource Type: Book Abstract: - Table of Contents Preface Introduction 1. Weight of Numbers Guessing the World Population A scale of reference The end of an old biological Regime The many against the few 2. Daily Bread Corn Rice Maize The rest of the World 3. Superfluity and Sufficiency: Food and Drink Luxury and the foods of the masses Drinks, stimulants and drugs 4. Superfluity and Sufficiency: Houses, Clothes and Fashion Houses throughout the world Interiors Costumes and fashion 5. The Spread of Technology: Sources of Power and Metallurgy The key problem: sources of power Iron: a poor relation 6. The Spread of Technology: Revolutions and Delay Three great technological innovations Transport Technology 7. Money Economics and imperfect money Outside Europe: early economics and metallic money Precious metals and metallic economics in Europe Paper money and instruments of credit 8. Towns The town: a definition The originality of Western towns Large towns Conclusion Index Maps Civilizations, "cultures" and primitive people Eurasian migrations from the fourteenth to the eighteenth Century The belt of hoe-cultures The great discoveries - the routes across the Atlantic Diagrams World population from the thirteenth to nineteenth century Historical diagram of diets with calorie rations and sources Budget of a mason's family in Berlin about Tables World population in millions from 1650 to 16 50 Cereal yields in Europe (1200-1820) Declines in cereals (1250-1750) Subject Headings |