Nice. Incidentally, someone really needs to publish a new edition of Civilization and Capitalism with notes that represent the present status of the various debates he engages with.
Your review is less damning than I expected given your posts while you were reading it!
Incidentally, on Braudel, I feel like his writing style is the opposite of grandiloquent? There may be some grand metaphors, but I mainly remember it feeling almost conversational, very light (in a good way). However I've only read the Mediterranean trilogy and not the Capitalism one, so maybe that's what accounts for it.
Nice. Incidentally, someone really needs to publish a new edition of Civilization and Capitalism with notes that represent the present status of the various debates he engages with.
Honestly someone just needs to publish a new edition full stop! Copies are very hard to find.
Ah, but then us grad students would be left bereft of our bookstore White Whale!
Your review is less damning than I expected given your posts while you were reading it!
Incidentally, on Braudel, I feel like his writing style is the opposite of grandiloquent? There may be some grand metaphors, but I mainly remember it feeling almost conversational, very light (in a good way). However I've only read the Mediterranean trilogy and not the Capitalism one, so maybe that's what accounts for it.
That may be just a matter of taste… in any case, I don’t mind Braudel’s metaphors precisely because they largely make sense!
On the ‘less damning’ front - see what you think after I publish part two :)