Aufbruch zur Weltwirtschaft

Inhalt

This concluding volume triumphantly completes Braudel's great trilogy on the social and economic history of the world from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution. Following his highly praised The Structures of Everyday Life and The Wheels of Commerce (winner of the 1983 Los Angeles Times Book Award for History), Braudel now charts the growth of the world economy from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Most of the usual matter of history — politics, wars, dynastic rivalries, conflict of religious beliefs and secular ideologies — is left out.