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Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. III: The Perspective of the World / Edition 1 available in Paperback
Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. III: The Perspective of the World / Edition 1
by Fernand Braudel, Siân Reynold
Fernand Braudel
- ISBN-10:
- 0520081161
- ISBN-13:
- 9780520081161
- Pub. Date:
- 12/23/1992
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- ISBN-10:
- 0520081161
- ISBN-13:
- 9780520081161
- Pub. Date:
- 12/23/1992
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. III: The Perspective of the World / Edition 1
by Fernand Braudel, Siân Reynold
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Overview
Volume III investigates what Braudel terms "world-economies"—the economic dominance of a particular city at different periods of history, from VeBérénice to Amsterdam, London, New York.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780520081161 |
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Publisher: | University of California Press |
Publication date: | 12/23/1992 |
Series: | Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century Series , #3 |
Edition description: | First Edition |
Pages: | 704 |
Sales rank: | 500,577 |
Product dimensions: | 6.50(w) x 8.88(h) x 1.50(d) |
Table of Contents
Foreword 1 DIVISIONS OF SPACE AND TIME IN EUROPE Economies in space: the world-economies World-economies, There have always been world-economies, Some ground rules, Rule One: the boundaries change only slowly, Rule Two: a dominant capitalist city always lies at the centre, Rule Two (continued): cities take it in turns to lead, Rule Two (continued): the power and influence of cities may vary, Rule Three: there is always a hierarchy of zones within a worldeconomy, Rule Three (continued): Von Thiinen's zones, Rule Three (continued): the spatial arrangement of the world-economy, Rule Three (continued): do neutral zones exist?, Rule Three (conclusion): envelope and infrastructure. The world-economy: an order among other orders The economic order and the international division of labour, The state: political power and economic power, Empire and world-economy, War and the zones of the world-economy, Societies and the world-economy, The cultural order, The world-economy model is certainly a valid one. The world-economy and divisions of time The rhythms of the 'conjuncture', Fluctuations across a spatial sounding-board, The secular trend, An explanatory chronology of the world economies, Kondratieff cycles and the secular trend, So - Can the long-term conjuncture be explained?, Past and present. 2 THE CITY-CENTRED ECONOMIES OF THE EUROPEANPAST:BEFOREANDAFTER VENICE The first European world-economy European expansion from the eleventh century, The world-economy and bi-polarity, The northern complex: the heyday of Bruges, The northern complex: the rise of the Hansa, The other pole of attraction: the Italian cities, An interlude: the Champagne fairs, France's lost opportunity, The belated rise of VeBérénice Genoa versus VeBérénice, VeBérénice reigns supreme, The world-economy centred on VeBérénice, VeBérénice's responsibility, The galere da mercato, The Venetian model of capitalism, Labour in VeBérénice, Had industry become VeBérénice's major activity?, The Turkish peril. The unexpected rise of Portugal; or from VeBérénice to Antwerp The traditional explanation, New interpretations, Antwerp: a world capital created by outside agency, Stages in Antwerp's career, Antwerp's first experience of expansion and disappointment, Antwerp's second boom and slump, Antwerp's industrial phase, The originality of Antwerp. Putting the record straight: the age of the Genoese 'A screen of barren mountains', Operating by remote control, A balancing act, Genoa's discreet rule over Europe, Reasons for the Genoese success, The Genoese withdrawal, Genoa survives, Back to the world-economy. 3 THE CITY -CENTRED ECONOMIES OF THE EUROPEAN PAST: AMSTERDAM The United Provinces: the economy begins at home A strip of land, lacking in natural wealth, Agricultural achievement, A high-voltage urban economy, Amsterdam, A variegated population, Fisheries from the first, The Dutch fleet, Can the United Provinces be· called a 'state'?, Internal structures: little change, Taxing the poor, The United Provinces and the outside world, When business was king. Traders to Europe, traders to the world The seeds of success had all been sown by I585, The rest of Europe and the Mediterranean, The Dutch versus the Portuguese, or the art of the takeover bid, The coherence of trade within the Dutch Empire. Success in Asia, lack of success in America Struggle and success, The rise and fall of the V.O.C., Why the collapse in the eighteenth century?, Failure in the New World: the limits of Dutch success. World-domination and capitalism What was good for the entrepot trade was good for Amsterdam, Commodities and credit, The commission trade, The acceptance trade, The loans mania or the perversion of capital, A change of perspective: away from Amsterdam, The Baltic countries, France versus Holland: an unequal struggle, England and Holland, Outside Europe: the East Indies, Is it possible to generalize? On the decline of Amsterdam The crises of I763, I772-3, I78o-3, The 'Batavian' revolution. 4 NATIONAL MARKETS Elements and compounds A hierarchy of units, Provincial units and markets, The nation-state, yes - but the national market?, Internal customs barriers, Against a priori definitions, The territorial economy and the city-centred economy. Weights and measures Three variables, three sets of dimensions, Three ambiguous concepts, Orders of magnitude and correlations, National debt and G.N.P., Some other equations, 308 - From consumption to G.N.P., Frank Spooner's calculations, Visible continuities. France: a victim of her size Diversity and unity, 315- Natural and artificial links, The primacy of politics, Was France simply too big?, Paris plus Lyon, Lyon plus Paris, Paris takes the crown, A plea for a differential history, For and against the Rouen -Geneva line, Border zones, coastal and continental, The towns of 'the other France', The French interior, The interior colonized by the periphery. England's trading supremacy How England became an island, The pound sterling, London creates the national market and is created by it, How England became Great Britain, England's greatness and the national debt, From the Treaty of Versailles (1783) to the Eden Treaty (1786), Statistics: a contribution but not a solution. 5 FOR AND AGAINST EUROPE: THE REST OF THE WORLD The Americas; playing for the highest stakes of all America's wide-open spaces: hostile but promising, Regional or national markets, Patterns of slavery, When the colonies worked for Europe, When the colonies worked against Europe, The conflict over industry, The English colonies choose liberty, Competition and rivalry in trade, The exploitation of America by Spain and Portugal, Spanish America reconsidered, The Spanish Empire taken in hand again, The treasure of treasures, Neither feudalism nor capitalism? Black Africa: collaborator as well as victim? The western half of Africa, Black Africa: isolated yet accessible, From the coast to the interior, The three-cornered traffic and its terms of trade, The end of the slave trade. The Russian world-economy: a world apart The return of the Russian economy to quasi-autonomy, A strong state, The yoke of serfdom in Russia: an ever-increasing burden, The market and rural society, A small-town society, A world-economy - but what kind of world-economy?, The invention of Siberia, Inferiorities and weaknesses, The price of European intrusion. The Turkish Empire The foundations of a world-economy, The scale of European penetration of the Turkish Empire, A land of caravans, Turkish waters: a wellprotected sector, The merchants serving the Ottoman Empire, Economic decadence, political decadence. The Far East - greatest of all the world-economies The fourth world-economy, India's self-inflicted conquest, Gold and silver, strength or weakness?, The European assault force: merchants with a difference, Trading posts, factories, supercargoes, How to get at the real history of the Far East?, The villages of India, Artisans and industry, A national market, ro The Perspective of the World The significance of the Mogul Empire, Political and non-political reasons for the fall of the Mogul Empire, India's decline in the nineteenth century, India and China: caught in a superworld- economy, Malacca's hour of glory, The new centres of the Far East. Is any conclusion possible? 6 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND GROWTH Some relevant comparisons Revolution: a complicated and ambiguous term, Downstream from the industrial revolution: the under-developed countries, Upstream from the English industrial revolution: revolutions that came to nothing, Alexandrian Egypt, The earliest industrial revolution in Europe: horses and mills, from the eleventh to rhe thirteenth century, The age of Agricola and Leonardo da Vinci: a revolution in embryo, John U. Nef and the first British industrial revolution, 156o-164o. The industrial revolution in Britain, sector by sector British agriculture, a crucial factor, The demographic revival, Technology, a necessary but probably not sufficient condition, Why the cotton revolution should not be underestimated, Victory in long-distance trade, The spread of inland transport, The mills of history grind exceedingly slow. Beyond the industrial revolution Types of growth, How can growth be explained?, Growth and the division of labour, The division of labour: the end of the road for the putting-out system, The industrialists, British economy and society by sector, The division of labour and the geography of Britain, Finance and capitalism, How important was the short-term economic climate?, Material progress and living standards. BY WAY OF CONCLUSION: PAST AND PRESENT Capitalism and the long-term, Capitalism and the social context, Can capitalism survive?, A conclusion to end conclusions: capitalism and the market economy. Notes IndexFrom the B&N Reads Blog
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