A History of Civilizations

By: Fernand Braudel, Richard Mayne

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Paperback | 25 May 1995 | Edition Number 1

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Written in 1962 as the basis for a history course, this curious book is a history of the civilizations of the modern world (from the 8th century on), written in terms of the broad sweep and continuities of history, rather than "event-based". Starting with the civilizations of Islam and the Far East, Braudel takes a consciously anti-ethnocentric approach, which is in education terms almost as radical now, as it was when the French ministry of education rejected it as a basis for school history teaching in 1962.

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List of Maps
Translator's Introduction
By Way of Preface
Introduction: History and the Present Day
A History of Civilizations
Changing Vocabulary	p. 3
The Study of Civilization Involves All the Social Sciences	p. 9
The Continuity of Civilizations	p. 24
Civilizations Outside Europe
Islam and the Muslim World
History	p. 41
Geography	p. 55
The Greatness and Decline of Islam	p. 69
The Revival of Islam Today	p. 93
Africa
The Past	p. 117
Black Africa: Today and Tomorrow	p. 137
The Far East
An Introduction to the Far East	p. 155
The China of the Past	p. 171
China Yesterday and Today	p. 199
India Yesterday and Today	p. 217
The Maritime Far East	p. 256
Japan	p. 276
European Civilizations
Europe
Geography and Freedom	p. 307
Christianity, Humanism and Scientific Thought	p. 333
The Industrialization of Europe	p. 373
Unity in Europe	p. 399
America
Latin America, the Other New World	p. 427
America par excellence: the United States	p. 458
Failures and Difficulties: From Yesterday to the Present	p. 480
An English-speaking Universe	p. 507
The Other Europe: Muscovy, Russia, the USSR and the CIS
From the Beginning to the October Revolution of 1917	p. 527
The USSR after 1917	p. 547
Index	p. 575
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