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The Perspective of the World: Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century 15th-18th Century


Such at any rate is the purpose of this volume. The reader will find in it plenty of descriptions, narratives, images , developments, regular patterns and breaks in those patterns - but from start to finish I have tried to refrain from the urge to describe everything, for the mere pleasure of drawing a picture, underlining a point or directing attention to a telling detail . I have simply tried to see th ings and to present them in such a way as to understand, that is to verify. But I have done so with some insistence, suspecting that only here, in the front line as it were of the endeavour, could my own research, and indeed the trade of historian itself, be justified.
Broudel, Fernand - Personal Name
1st Ed
909.08 Bro t
9780060153175
909.08
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English
Williams Collins Sons
1984
New York
699p
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