On History

Name: On History
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ISBN: 9780226071510

ISBN-10: 0226071510

ISBN-13: 9780226071510

Edition: 1980

Authors: Fernand Braudel, Sarah Matthews

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The first English translation of Ecrits sur l'histoire--a collection of essays written over a twenty-year period following publication of Braudel's masterwork, La, Meacute;diterraneacute;e--On History sets forth Braudel's reflections on the intellectual framework of his historical studies. Braudel calls on the historian to penetrate beneath the surface of political events to uncover and measure the forces shaping collective existence. Cycles of production, wages and prices, grids of communication and trade, fluctuations and climate, demographic trends, popular beliefs--all of these phenomena are proper subjects of the historian's investigations. It is only through study of the longue…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1980
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/15/1982
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Fernan Braudel was the author of several acclaimed histories, including "A History of Civilizations", "On History", "The Structures of Everyday Life", & "The Wheels of Commerce". He died in 1985.



Preface



Time in History


The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip



Extract from the Preface The Situation of History in 1950



History and the Other Human Sciences History and the Social Sciences


The Longue Dureacute;e Unity and Diversity in the Human Sciences History and Sociology Toward a Historical


Economics Toward a Serial History


Seville and the Atlantic, 1504-1650


Is There a Geography of Biological Man?


On a Concept of Social History


Demography and the Scope of the Human Sciences



History and the Present Age In Bahia, Brazil


The Present Explains the Past The History of Civilizations


The Past Explains the Present


Index