Author: Braudel, Fernand
Title: The Structures of Everyday Life : The Limits of the Possible
Description: New York, Harper & Row, 1981. 1st US edition, orig.cloth. 24x17cm, 623 pp, Some light top page-edge spotting.. Textual maps,photos,graphs.. Minor rubbing. Some light stains to binding. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Series: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1. Contents: Weight of Numbers: Guessing the world population; A scale of reference; The eighteenth century: watershed of biological régimes; The many against the few; Daily Bread: Wheat; Rice; Maize; The dietary revolutions of the 18.th century; The rest of the world; Superfluity and Sufficiency: Food and Drink: Eating habits: luxury and the foods of the masses; Drinks, stimulants and drugs; Superfluity and Sufficiency: Houses, 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.

Keywords: Social History, Economic Economy, Economics, Historiography, Sociology, Historical, , ,