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A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel
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A brief world history, written from a civilisational, rather than national, perspective.
  Fledgist | Nov 26, 2009 |
Full of sweeping generalisations and inaccuracies, I'd like to think this is of use only as a record of how far the study of history has come. ( )
  Sr_Moreno | Mar 6, 2009 |
Deep going, and frequently extremely boring. Braudel was more than a bit of a snob, too, and many cultural references in this book, originally written in 1962, are politically incorrect. Still, over a 6-8 week period, I managed to finish the silly thing, ( )
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This is the English title of Braudel's Grammaire des civilisations. It was originally the second book in a three-part educational series (Le Monde actuel, histoire et civilisations), written by three authors. Grammaire des civilisations first appeared in French in 1963, went out of print in 1970, and was reissued by itself in 1987. The first publication in English was in 1993.
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