Homage to Braudel
Geoffrey Parker
- Civilisation matérielle, économie et capitalisme, XVe – XVIIIe siécle by Fernand Braudel
Armand Colin, 544 pp, ISBN 0 00 000097 3
This book, French readers were told one month before its publication last January, ‘is already the intellectual event of 1980’. As if in answer, the first printing of 9,000 copies of the three-volume set, each containing 1,751 pages and weighing ten pounds, sold out within three weeks. At almost £50 per set, Civilisation Matérielle seems likely to prove the commercial event of 1980.
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[1] 2 vols, Fontans (1972/73).
[2] An earlier version of this volume was published in 1967, with an English translation (Weidenfeld) in 1973.
[3] See Braudel’s ‘Personal Testimony’, Journal of Modern History, Vol. 44 (1972), pp. 448-9.
[4] Afterthoughts on Material Civilisation and Capitalism (John Hopkins University Press, 1997), pp. 116-17.
[5] C. Levi, Christ Stopped at Eboli (New York, 1947), pp. 4, 24. See also G. Brenan, South from Granada (London, 1957), e.g. p. 45. French examples from the region in E. Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen: the Modernisation of Rural France 1870-1914 (Stanford University Press, 1976), pp. 3, 110 and note.
[6] J. A. Pitt-Rivers, The People of the Sierra (Chicago, second edition, 1971); S. H. Brandes, Migration, Kinship and Community: Tradition and Transition in a Spanish Village (London and New York, Academic Press, 1975).
[7] C. G. Mota, ‘Conflitos entre Capital e Trabalho. Anotaçoes acêrca de uma Agitaçao no Sudoeste Ingles em 1738’, Revista de Historia, Vol. 33 (1966), pp. 347-66: Braudel cites both title and year incorrectly. See J. de L. Mann, ‘Clothiers and Weavers in Wiltshire during the 18th Century’, in L. S. Pressnell, ed., Studies in the Industrial Revolution presented to T. S. Ashton (1960), pp. 71-96.
[8] Journal of Modern History, Vol. 44 (1972), pp. 448-539. It should be noted, however, that Hexter’s article gently mocked as it praised, for its style and presentation were an amusing parody of the style annales.
[9] Mill quoted in F. Oakley, ‘Celestial Hierarchies Revisited: Walter Ullmann’s Vision of Celestial Politics’, Past and Present, Vol. 60 (1973), p. 48; Taylor quoted in Ved Mehta, Fly and the Flybottle (1963), p. 185.