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001  746190
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008  930722s1994    enka          001 0 eng  
010      $a   93030639  
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035      $a(OCoLC)ocm28633732
035      $9ADP7848PU
040      $aDLC$cDLC$dOBE$dIPL
041  0   $aeng$hfre
050  00  $aCB78$b.B73 1993
050  14  $aCB78$b.B73 1994
082  00  $a909$220
092      $a909$bB737gE, 1994
100  1   $aBraudel, Fernand.
240  10  $aGrammaire des civilisations.$lEnglish
245  12  $aA history of civilizations /$cFernand Braudel ;
         translated by Richard Mayne.
250      $a1st ed.
260      $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bA. Lane,$c1994.
300      $axl, 600 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
500      $aIncludes index.
505  00  $gI.$tA History of Civilizations -- $g1.$tChanging
         Vocabulary -- $g2.$tThe Study of Civilization Involves All
         the Social Sciences -- $g3.$tThe Continuity of Civilizations
         -- $gII.$tCivilizations Outside Europe -- $gPt. I.$tIslam
         and the Muslim World -- $g4.$tHistory -- $g5.$tGeography --
         $g6.$tThe Greatness and Decline of Islam -- $g7.$tThe
         Revival of Islam Today -- $gPt. II.$tAfrica -- $g8.$tThe
         Past -- $g9.$tBlack Africa: Today and Tomorrow -- $gPt.
         III.$tThe Far East -- $g10.$tAn Introduction to the Far East
         -- $g11.$tThe China of the Past -- $g12.$tChina Yesterday
         and Today -- $g13.$tIndia Yesterday and Today -- $g14.$tThe
         Maritime Far East -- $g15.$tJapan -- $gIII.$tEuropean
         Civilizations -- $gPt. I.$tEurope -- $g16.$tGeography and
         Freedom -- $g17.$tChristianity, Humanism and Scientific
         Thought -- $g18.$tThe Industrialization of Europe --
         $g19.$tUnity in Europe -- $gPt. II.$tAmerica -- $g20.$tLatin
         America, the Other New World -- $g21.$tAmerica par
         excellence: the United States -- $g22.$tFailures and
         Difficulties: From Yesterday to the Present -- $g23.$tAn
         English-speaking Universe -- $gPt. III.$tThe Other Europe:
         Muscovy, Russia, the USSR and the CIS -- $g24.$tFrom the
         Beginning to the October Revolution of 1917 -- $g25.$tThe
         USSR after 1917.
520  1   $a"Fernand Braudel was one of the greatest
         historians of the twentieth century. A leading member of the
         Annales school, he rejected a narrow focus on Western
         warfare, diplomacy, and power politics, and opened up
         economic and social history to influences from anthropology,
         sociology, geography, psychology, and linguistics." "In the
         late 1950s, when the Annales approach was widely accepted in
         French universities, a major reform introduced the study of
         "the main contemporary civilizations" into the final year of
         secondary schools. Traditionalists attacked the new stress
         on the social sciences and eventually triumphed, but Braudel
         was firmly committed to such changes. This marvelous survey
         of world history, the last of his books to be translated
         into English, was originally intended for French
         "sixth-formers."" "Yet its real value is far more permanent.
         Even an "educational story," Braudel once suggested in a
         lecture, can become a "tale of adventure," provided the
         historian manages to "find the key to a civilization" and is
         not afraid of simplicity - "not simplicity that distorts the
         truth, produces a void, and is another name for mediocrity,
         but simplicity that is clarity, the light of intelligence."
         Such a light shines throughout A History of Civilizations.".
520  8   $a"After an introductory section examining the
         nature of cultures and civilizations, their continuities and
         transformations, Braudel surveys broad historical
         developments in almost every corner of the globe: the Muslim
         world - from the rise of Islam to post-colonial revival;
         Black Africa - from the slave trade to the dilemmas of
         development; the Far East: China, India, the maritime states
         and Japan; Europe - from the collapse of the Roman Empire to
         political union; the European civilizations of the New
         World: Latin America and the United States; the
         English-speaking universe: Canada, Southern Africa,
         Australia, and New Zealand; and the other Europe: Russia,
         the USSR, and the CIS." "For this excellent translation,
         Richard Mayne has gently updated the text. And yet, as he
         explains in his Introduction, very little was necessary.
         Braudel always had an astonishingly firm grasp on the broad
         sweep of history - a grasp which, "in the hands of a master,
         can help explain the most dramatic convulsions in the past,
         the present, and the future.""--BOOK JACKET.
650   0  $aCivilization$xHistory.