Author: Fernand BraudelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Capitalism and Material Life, 1400-1800
Author: Fernand BraudelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Capitalism and Material Life, 1400-1800
Author: Capitalism and Material Life, 1400-1800
Author: Capitalism and Material Life, 1400-1800
Author: Fernand BraudelPublisher: Fontana Press
ISBN: 9780006335023
Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Out of Italy
Author: Fernand BraudelPublisher: Europa Editions
ISBN: 1609455355
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
From the author of Memory and the Mediterranean, a comprehensive history of the Italian city states from 1450 to 1650. In the fifteenth century, even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, “Italy” exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean. Its cultural, economic, and political dominance is utterly astonishing and unique in world history. Viewing the Italy?the many Italies?of that time through the lens of today allows us to gather a fragmented, multi-faceted, and seemingly contradictory history into a single unifying narrative that speaks to our current reality as much as it does to a specific historical period. This is what the acclaimed French historian, Fernand Braudel, achieves here. He brings to life the two extraordinary centuries that span the Renaissance, Mannerism, and the Baroque and analyzes the complex interaction between art, science, politics, and commerce during Italy’s extraordinary cultural flowering.
Nature's Perfect Food
Author: E. Melanie DupuisPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814719376
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
The story of how Americans came to drink milk For over a century, America's nutrition authorities have heralded milk as "nature's perfect food," as "indispensable" and "the most complete food." These milk "boosters" have ranged from consumer activists, to government nutritionists, to the American Dairy Council and its ubiquitous milk moustache ads. The image of milk as wholesome and body-building has a long history, but is it accurate? Recently, within the newest social movements around food, milk has lost favor. Vegan anti-milk rhetoric portrays the dairy industry as cruel to animals and milk as bad for humans. Recently, books with titles like, "Milk: The Deadly Poison," and "Don't Drink Your Milk" have portrayed milk as toxic and unhealthy. Controversies over genetically-engineered cows and questions about antibiotic residue have also prompted consumers to question whether the milk they drink each day is truly good for them. In Nature's Perfect Food Melanie Dupuis illuminates these questions by telling the story of how Americans came to drink milk. We learn how cow's milk, which was associated with bacteria and disease became a staple of the American diet. Along the way we encounter 19th century evangelists who were convinced that cow's milk was the perfect food with divine properties, brewers whose tainted cow feed poisoned the milk supply, and informal wetnursing networks that were destroyed with the onset of urbanization and industrialization. Informative and entertaining, Nature's Perfect Food will be the standard work on the history of milk.
A History of Civilizations
Author: Fernand BraudelPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140124896
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
Written from a consciously anti-enthnocentric approach, this fascinating work is a survey of the civilizations of the modern world in terms of the broad sweep and continuities of history, rather than the "event-based" technique of most other texts.
Capitalism and Material Life, 1400-1800; Tr. by M. Kochan
Author: Fernand BraudelOn a Pedestal
Author: Elizabeth SemmelhackPublisher:
ISBN: 9780921638209
Category : Shoes
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
Author: David HarveyPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019936026X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
David Harvey examines the foundational contradictions of capital, and reveals the fatal contradictions that are now inexorably leading to its end