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Re: Braudel doesn't seem to be very easy to find. DomA Send a noteboard - 12/01/2013 09:37:16 PM
Forget about looking for hardcover versions; even new paperback versions don't seem to be readily available for his Capitalism and Material Life 1400-1800, which is the book that I would be most interested in reading.


Surprising, but it will no doubt resurface. Over the years the three were re-edited a few times with a different cover.

I'll look at the bookstore I go to. If it's in print they'll have them in stock, for as far as I remember (20 years or close) they always had that and one of his books about the Mediterranean area in stock.

It's really great, though it's very didactic and gets tedious in parts (there's only so much you feel you need to know about each cereal, and that sort of things, then he goes into each animal!) but the first book is a really amazing panoramic look into material life in the period. It's fun because he brushes the great lines and the theory, but he illustrates it all massively using concrete examples daily life taken from sources often hard to locate for non-historians (personal diaries and such). Basically he makes this big panorama of what he calls "the possible", then in the later books he goes into to urban organization and then into the market mechanisms.

It's too bad it's no longer available in a large format, though. It's full of charts and maps and it's annoying in the paperbacks.
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