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‘Material Civilisation’ In The Work Of Fernand Braudel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2010

Peter Burke
Affiliation:
Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Abstract

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Fernand Braudel
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Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 1981

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References

Notes

1 References to Braudel's work are given as follows: Braudel, (1966), La Méditerranée, second edition, ParisGoogle ScholarBraudel, (1967), Civilisation matérielie et capitalisme, Paris.Google ScholarBraudel, (1969), Ecrits sur l'histoire, Paris.Google ScholarBraudel, (1977), Afterthoughts on Material Civilisation, Baltimore and London.Google ScholarBraudel, (1980), Les Structures du Quotidien, Paris, the second edition of Braudel (1967), with new introductionGoogle Scholar.

2 Braudel (1977), p. 3, says Febvre made his suggestion in 1950; Braudel (1980), p. 7, gives the date as 1952.

3 Braudel (1967), chapter 1.

4 Braudel (1967), introduction.

5 Braudel, (1969), 255314, an essay on ‘l'histoire des civilisations’ first published in 1959Google Scholar.

6 Spengler, O., Der Untergang des Abendlandes, 1, Munich 1919, 43f. On him, Braudel (1969), 269fGoogle Scholar.

7 Braudel (1969), p. 262.

8 Peristiany, J. G. (ed.), Honour and Shame, London, 1965, contains good examples of this workGoogle Scholar.

9 Goff, J. Le and Nora, P., Faire de l'histoire, 3, Paris 1974, 7690Google Scholar.

10 On Sorre, Braudel (1969), 155–74.

11 Braudel (1966), part 2, chapter 6, section 1; Braudel (1967), chapter 4, section 2; for general reflections on the question, Braudel (1969), 292–4. On the question of ‘refusal’, c.f. Schneider, H. K., ‘Pakot resistance to change’, in Continuity and Change in African Cultures, ed. Bascom, W. and Hersko-vits, M. J., Chicago, 1959, 144–67Google Scholar

12 Braudel (1980), p. 13.

13 Hoskins, W. G., ‘The Rebuilding of Rural England’, Past and Present, 4, 1953Google Scholar; Barley, M. W., The English Farmhouse, London 1961Google Scholar; Hoskins, W. G., The Making of the EnglishLandscape, London 1955Google Scholar.

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19 Useful anthologies of recent work on food, clothes and houses include Gastronomy, ed. Arnott, M. L., The Hague 1975;Google ScholarThe Fabric of Culture, ed. Cord-well, J. M., Schwarz, R. A., The Hague 1979; andCrossRefGoogle ScholarThe Mutual Interaction of People and their Built Environment, ed. Rapoport, A., The Hague 1976CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

20 Thompson, E. P., Whigs and Hunters, London 1975, p. 158Google Scholar.

21 Goffman, E., The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, New York 1959. I hope to explore these questions in a study of large towns in early modern EuropeGoogle Scholar.