by Fernand Braudel (Author)
The concluding volume of the trilogy charts the growth of the world economy from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century concentrating on the human activity that underlies the business of life - the bustle of the market, the great manipulators of capital, the labour of the slave, the peasant and factory workers, the fashions of the rich and the rise of the great financial centres of Genoa, Venice, Amsterdam and London.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 704
Edition: New
Publisher: Orion
Published: 17 Jan 2002
ISBN 10: 1842122894
ISBN 13: 9781842122891
Book Overview: The second of a trilogy by a man whom Hugh-Trevor Roper described as 'the greatest historian we have' Lavishly illustrated with b&w plates, maps and diagrams Phoenix Press December lead