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Capitalism and Material Life 1400-1800

Braudel, Fernand
Publisher:  Happer Colophon Books, New York, USA
Year Published:  1975   First Published:  1967
Pages:  462pp  
Resource Type:  Book

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Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
1. Weight of Numbers
Guessing the World Population
A scale of reference
The end of an old biological Regime
The many against the few

2. Daily Bread
Corn
Rice
Maize
The rest of the World

3. Superfluity and Sufficiency: Food and Drink
Luxury and the foods of the masses
Drinks, stimulants and drugs

4. Superfluity and Sufficiency: Houses, Clothes and Fashion
Houses throughout the world
Interiors
Costumes and fashion

5. The Spread of Technology: Sources of Power and Metallurgy
The key problem: sources of power
Iron: a poor relation

6. The Spread of Technology: Revolutions and Delay
Three great technological innovations
Transport
Technology

7. Money
Economics and imperfect money
Outside Europe: early economics and metallic money
Precious metals and metallic economics in Europe
Paper money and instruments of credit

8. Towns
The town: a definition
The originality of Western towns
Large towns

Conclusion
Index



Maps

Civilizations, "cultures" and primitive people
Eurasian migrations from the fourteenth to the eighteenth
Century
The belt of hoe-cultures
The great discoveries - the routes across the Atlantic



Diagrams
World population from the thirteenth to nineteenth century
Historical diagram of diets with calorie rations and sources
Budget of a mason's family in Berlin about

Tables
World population in millions from 1650 to 16 50
Cereal yields in Europe (1200-1820)
Declines in cereals (1250-1750)

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