{"product_id":"on-history-fernand-braudel-9780226071510","title":"On History","description":"The first English translation of \u003ci\u003eEcrits sur l'histoire\u003c\/i\u003e-a collection of essays written over a twenty-year period following publication of Braudel's masterwork, \u003ci\u003eLa, M馘iterran馥\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003eOn History\u003c\/i\u003e sets forth Braudel's reflections on the intellectual framework of his historical studies. Braudel calls on the historian to penetrate beneath the surface of political events to uncover and measure the forces shaping collective existence. Cycles of production, wages and prices, grids of communication and trade, fluctuations and climate, demographic trends, popular beliefs-all of these phenomena are proper subjects of the historian's investigations. It is only through study of the \u003ci\u003elongue dur馥\u003c\/i\u003e, Braudel argues, that one can discern structure, the supports and obstacles, the limits and his experience cannot escape. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The great French historian Fernand Braudel has done what only giants can: he has made Western man confront the problem of time-individual time, historical time, relative time, \u003ci\u003ereal\u003c\/i\u003e time. . . . Braudel, more than any other historian, has wrestled with man's conception of time \u003ci\u003eover time\u003c\/i\u003e. . . What a magnificent fight he has fought.\"-\u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fernand Braudel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226071510\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226071510\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/1982\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.06w x 0.56d","brand":"Fernand Braudel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981505659135,"sku":"9780226071510","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3d555344-1e08-4b80-839b-57ebdd51d0a8.jpg?v=1683255978","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/on-history-fernand-braudel-9780226071510","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}