Understanding Expertise
What makes an expert? What strategies do they use? If you're an expert in one domain, are you more likely to become an expert in a second? In examining questions like these, Professor Fernand Gobet provides a comprehensive overview of the field of...
Handbook of Middle English
Professor Fernand Mosse of the College de France is at home in all the Germanic languages and literatures, but for many years he has paid particular attention to English. Since he is a medievalist he has interested himself first and foremost in th...
Psychology of Chess
Do you need to be a genius to be good at chess? What does it take to become a Grandmaster? Can computer programmes beat human intuition in gameplay? The Psychology of Chess is an insightful overview of the roles of intelligence, expertise, and hum...
Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century
Focuses on the development of mechanisms of exchange - shops, markets, trade networks, and banking - in the pre-industrial stages of capitalism.
The Mediterranean in the Ancient World
Presents general reader's history of the ancient mediterranean that combines a grasp of the scholarship of the day with a great historian's gift for imaginative reconstruction and inspired analogy. This book features notes that allow the reader to...
On History
A translation of Fernand Braudel's "Ecrits sur l'histoire", published in 1969. The main themes of the work are: the importance of a "rapprochement" between history and the social sciences; the inseparability of study of past an...
Whisky Book
Whisky is a story. Whisky is many stories. This book brings together the most surprising anecdotes from the world of whisky and is therefore the perfect addition to other books on distilling, tasting and travelling. Enjoy heart-warming tales about...
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II - Volume I
This reissue of Fernand Braudel's great work brings the original back in print and looks at the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixteenth century. The focus of Fernand Braudel's work is the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixteenth century, but Braudel ranges back in history to the world of Odysseus and forward to our time, moving out from the Mediterranean area to the New World and other destinations of Mediterranean traders. Braudel's scope embraces the natural world and material life, economics, demography, politics, and diplomacy.
Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century
Investigates what Braudel terms world-economies - the economic dominance of a particular city at different periods of history, from Venice to Amsterdam, London, New York.
Medelhavet och medelhavsvärlden på Filip II:s tid
Encyklopediskt i sin breda överblick är detta verk, som bryter ned gränserna mellan historieskrivningens traditionella fack, oöverträffat som rekonstruktion av en hel värld. Det var under detta arbete Braudel kom fram till sin tredelade historiesy...
Kapitalismens Dynamik
I Kapitalismens dynamik sammanfattar den franske historikern Fernand Braudel resultaten av sin mångåriga forskning om kapitalismens framväxt. Han skildrar köpmännens verksamhet i städerna, i fjärrhandeln, på de framväxande kapitalmarknaderna och hur handelskapitalismen omvandlades till en industrikapitalism. Med sitt lilla omfång är Kapitalismens dynamik en suverän och lättillgänglig introduktion till den nyare tidens ekonomiska historia. Fernand Braudel (1902-1985) är en de av främsta moderna historikerna och känd som en av förgrundsgestalterna inom den s k Annales-skolan.
Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century
By examining in detail the material life of pre-industrial people around the world, the author significantly changed the way historians view their subject. He describes food and drink, dress and housing, demography and family structure, energy and...
