Main entry:

Braudel, Fernand.

Title & Author:

The structures of everyday life : the limits of the possible / Fernand Braudel ; translation from the French revised by Siân Reynolds.

Publication:

London : Collins, 1981.

Description:

623 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Civilization and capitalism, 15th-18th century ; v. 1

Notes:
Rev. translation of: Les structures du quotidien, le possible et l'impossible.
The translation by Miriam Kochan of an earlier version appeared in English in 1973, under the title: Capitalism and material life, 1400-1800.
Errata slip inserted.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Weight of numbers (Guessing the world population ; A scale of reference ; The eighteenth century: watershed of biological regimes ; The many against the few) -- Daily bread (Wheat ; Rice ; Maize; The dietarty revolutions of the eighteenth century ; The rest of the world) -- Superfluity and sufficiency : food and drink (Eating habits : luxury and food of the masses ; Drinks, stimulants and drugs) -- Superfluity and sufficency: house, clothes and fashion (Houses throughout the world ; Interiors ; Costume and fashion) -- The spread of technology: sources of energy, metallurgy (The key problem, sources of energy ; Iron, a poor relation) -- The spread of technology: revolution and delays (Three great technological innovations ; Transport ; Problems of the history of technology) -- Money (Imperfect currencies and economies ; Outside Europe: early economies and metallic money ; Some rules of the currency game ; Paper money and instruments of credit) -- Towns and cities (Towns: the problems of definition ; The originality of Western towns ; The big cities).
Translation of: Les structures du quotidien.

Summary:

The first volume of this economic and social history of the world from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution covers the richness and complexity of everyday life - food, drink, dress, housing, money and the development of towns.

ISBN:

0002163039
9780002163033

Subject:

Economic history.
Social history.
Civilization, Modern History.
Social Conditions
Histoire économique.
Histoire sociale.
social history.
Civilization, Modern.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 66485
Call No.: HC51.B6 1981
Status: Available