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Title: A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel ISBN: 0140124896 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Intro to a Better Understanding of the World
Comment: If you want a better understanding of how the world has come to be what it today is, then this book is a good first step in so doing. Braudel was an influential French historian specializing in the Mediterranean, so his insights into the evolution of Europe are more insightful than other regions he highlights (but he is insightful throughout). Excellent book to read while you bask in the sun with your feet dancing in Lake Michigan on a tourist beach (as I did). Maybe the atmosphere I had while reading made me enjoy it more; nonetheless, one should read this if they have any desire to.
Rating: 2
Summary: Very unbalanced
Comment: This essay is a classical book from the 1960s, about the idea of civilization and the different ones that Braudel considered that were in existence. Some descriptions are brilliant, others not quite. But they all are a good introduction to some of them, unknown to us, like Islam or Black Africa.
He explains their history, their past and present. There're very surprising historical facts. For instance, about slavery and the enormous demographic tragedy that meant for Africa. Millions of men and women were captured and brought Westward to America and Eastward to Moslem countries (the Turkish Empire, Arabic peninsule) and he gives higher numbers in those sold as slaves to Moslem countries than those sent to America. Braudel considers that there are real alive Africas in America (in Brazil or the Caribbean islands) while no trace of those wretchs sent to Islamic lands can be found, as if swallowed up by the sands of hot desserts.
We know a lot about slavery towards America but very few about that bleeding towards Arabic countries, some of them still defend and practice slavery, for instance in the Arabic peninsule.
Those facts were the most touching for me because it shows the difference among civilizations towards the other one, the one that is different, and I was so disconcerted that for once I couldn't come to any conclusion about anything this book told me.
Which I guess is a good starting point.
Still, the second part told me nothing and it was dificult to finish. I'd put 5 stars to the chapters I-IX and none to the rest. So I guess 2 is a fair average.
Rating: 5
Summary: Grammaire des civilisations
Comment: This book is extraordinary! Meant for French lycéens in their last year before sitting for their bac exam, it was a failure. However, looking at today's situation of the west vis-à-vis the Islamic and other non-western worlds, it is a jewel. Among other things, it explains the origin of today's conflicting attitudes. For example, why the Egyptians and other Mediterranean peoples become in overwhelming majority Moslems several centuries after the conquest by the Arabs.
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Title: The Perspective of the World: Civilization and Capitalism 15Th-18th Century by Fernand Braudel, Sian Reynolds ISBN: 0520081161 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: December, 1992 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Memory and the Mediterranean by Fernand Braudel, Roselyne De Ayala, Paule Braudel, Sian Reynolds, Roselyne De Ayala ISBN: 0375404260 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 24 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits of the Possible (Civilization and Capitalism: 15Th-18th Century) by Fernand Braudel, Sian Reynolds ISBN: 0520081145 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: October, 1992 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: A Study of History: Abridgement of Volumes 1-VI by Arnold Joseph Toynbee, D. C. Somervell ISBN: 0195050800 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: December, 1987 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II by Fernand Braudel, Sian Reynolds ISBN: 0520203089 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: July, 1996 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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