Civilization and Capitalism, 15th–18th Century | work by Braudel | Britannica (original) (raw)

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discussed in biography

• In Fernand Braudel
  2–3, 1979; Civilization and Capitalism, 15th–18th Century). (The titles of the three individual volumes are Les Structures du quotidien: le possible et l’impossible [_The Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits of the Possible_], Les Jeux de l’échange [_The Wheels of Commerce_], and Le Temps du monde [_The…_
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world history

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  2–3, 1979; Civilization and Capitalism, 15th–18th Century). Although some of its claims seemed designed to shock conventional historical sensibilities—the introduction of forks into Europe, he wrote, was more important than the Reformation—no historical work has done more to explore the entire material base on which civilizations arise
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