Research Catalog

Title

Capitalism and material life, 1400-1800 / Fernand Braudel, translated from the French by Miriam Kochan.

Author

Braudel, Fernand

Publication

New York : Harper and Row, [1973]-

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kochan, Miriam
• Dedalus Foundation, donor. NN
• Robert Motherwell Book Collection (New York Public Library. Art Division)

Description

volumes; 23 cm

Uniform Title

Civilisation matérielle, économie et capitalisme. English

Alternative Title

Civilisation matérielle, économie et capitalisme.

Subject

• Economic history
• Social history

Source (note)

• of the Dedalus Foundation;

Language (note)

• Translation of Civilisation matérielle et capitalisme.

Contents

Weight of numbers -- Daily bread -- Superfluity and sufficiency: Food and drink -- Superfluity and sufficiency: Houses, clothes and fashion -- The spread of technology: Sources of power and metallurgy -- The spread of technology: Revolution and delay -- Towns.

Call Number

ReCAP 25-13023

ISBN

• 0060104546
• 9780060104542
• 0297995952
• 9780297995951

LCCN

72009747

OCLC

728196

Author

Braudel, Fernand.

Title

Capitalism and material life, 1400-1800 / Fernand Braudel, translated from the French by Miriam Kochan.

Imprint

New York : Harper and Row, [1973]-

Edition

[1st U.S. ed.].

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Summary

This work is concerned with the quest for progress in daily life throughout the world between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Professor Braudel studies the demographic expansion that outstripped the production of goods, and the many other factors that brought about the low subsistence level of the majority of people in contrast with the luxurious living standards of the wealthy and privileged few; the effects of famine and plague; the gradual expansion of the towns in a basically agricultural economy. In this first of a two-volume work deals with population; staple diets throughout the world; housing and clothes; the spread of technology in particular, sources of power; communications; early economies and kinds of money; towns in East and West. The second volume will deal with the rise and expansion of capitalism.

Language

Translation of Civilisation matérielle et capitalisme.

Source

Copy in ReCAP 25-13023 Gift; of the Dedalus Foundation; 2025. NN

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Table of contents

Added Author

Kochan, Miriam, translator.

Dedalus Foundation, donor. NN

Robert Motherwell Book Collection (New York Public Library. Art Division)

Other Form:

Online version: Braudel, Fernand. Civilisation matérielle et capitalisme. English. Capitalism and material life, 1400-1800. [1st U.S. ed.]. New York, Harper and Row [1973- (OCoLC)646905723

Research Call Number

ReCAP 25-13023

JLL 74-693 Library has: Vol. 1.