1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner
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The Wheels of Commerce: Volume 2 of Civilization and Capitalism: 15Th-18th Century
Fernand Braudel
By examining in detail the material life of pre-industrial peoples around the world, Fernand Braudel significantly changed the way historians view their subject. Originally published in the early 1980s, Civilization traces the social and economic history o…