1st Edition

Economy and Society in Early Modern Europe Essays from Annales

Edited By Peter Burke Copyright 2006
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

In 1929 two French historians, Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch, founded Annales, a historical journal which rapidly became one of the most influential in the world. They believed that economic history, social history and the history of ideas were as important as political history, and that historians should not be narrow specialists but should learn from their colleagues in the social sciences.... Read more

1. Introduction, Peter Burke

2. History and the Social Sciences, Fernand Braudel

3. the so-called 'Price Revolution': Reflections on 'the Italian Situation', Carlo M. Cipolla

4. More about the sixteenth-century Price Revolution, Alexandre R.E. Chabert

5. Price and wage movements in Belgium in the sixteenth century, C. Verlinden, J. Craeybeckx, E. Scholliers

6. Central Europe and the sixteenth and seventeenth-century Price Revolution, Stanislas Hoszowski

7. Movements of Expansion in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Marian Malowist

8. Sixteenth-century Hungary: Commercial activity and market production by the Nobles, Z.P. Pach

9. History and Climate, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

Biography

PETER BURKE