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More copies of this ISBN:A History of Civilizationsby Fernand Braudel
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:This groundbreaker by one of the premier historians of this century takes an anti-ethnocentric approach to the history of civilizations. This book focuses on the broad sweep of history rather than on the famous events. It covers historical developments in almost every corner of the globe, from the Muslim world and the Far East to Europe and the Americas. Includes maps.
Review:"The great French historian Fernand Braudel has done what only giants can: he has made Western man confront the problem of time—individual time, historical time, relative time, real time. At first this seems so simple that one is astonished. What, after all, is the historian's business? The answer is that Braudel, more than any other historian ever, has wrestled with man's conception of time over time. The fishermen on the Costa del Sol who feared Barbary pirates shared much with their descendants who glanced up at the passing jetliner, but there is real change, and Braudel has tried to isolate it. He is the first to admit that he cannot—but what a magnificent fight he has fought." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review) Synopsis:Written in 1962 as the basis for a history course, this book is a history of the civilizations of the modern world (from the 8th century on), written in terms of the broad sweep and continuities of history, rather than "event-based". What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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