Reading Notes on Braudel's “Civilization and Capitalism”
fantasticanachronism.com
Reading Notes on Braudel's “Civilization and Capitalism”
1–10 of 13 posts
Re: Reading Notes on Braudel's “Civilization and Capitalism”
#2Appears to be a summarisation of its content without critique.
Funnily that's what I found with Braudel himself: describing what happened not why.
Regardless, a bloody good read.
Re: Reading Notes on Braudel's “Civilization and Capitalism”
#3Reminds me of Vaclav Smil
Re: Reading Notes on Braudel's “Civilization and Capitalism”
#4Appears to be a summarisation of its content without critique. Funnily that's what I found with Braudel himself: describing what happened not why. Regardless, a bloody good read.
To quote Feynman: explaining how something happens makes the why irrelevant.
Re: Reading Notes on Braudel's “Civilization and Capitalism”
#5Appears to be a summarisation of its content without critique. Funnily that's what I found with Braudel himself: describing what happened not why. Regardless, a bloody good read.
To quote Feynman: explaining how something happens makes the why irrelevant.
The how can often be determined. The why is often conjecture after the fact. History is written by the victors.
Re: Reading Notes on Braudel's “Civilization and Capitalism”
#6Although I’m not a huge fan of Cowan this was a good call. Braudel will change your perspective.
You can clearly see the influence of Bloch who really could be credited with the creation of modern history and historiography. He took a view of complete engagement with history, joining the resistance being, in his mind, itself being part of the historical process (he wrote his last book on the run). His death at the GP hands of the gestapo was tragic.
Re: Reading Notes on Braudel's “Civilization and Capitalism”
#7Appears to be a summarisation of its content without critique. Funnily that's what I found with Braudel himself: describing what happened not why. Regardless, a bloody good read.
To quote Feynman: explaining how something happens makes the why irrelevant.
Feynman did not deal with humans. Knowing that Lincoln was killed with a bullet does not lessen the value of why he was killed.
Re: Reading Notes on Braudel's “Civilization and Capitalism”
#8Appears to be a summarisation of its content without critique. Funnily that's what I found with Braudel himself: describing what happened not why. Regardless, a bloody good read.
Well, we had years of more claims than evidence. Somebody had to do the hard labor for sake of future historians.
I hope someday democracy has recovered to the point where we can centrally plan, and then we can experimentally historical theorys.
Re: Reading Notes on Braudel's “Civilization and Capitalism”
#9Braudel's three tomes are a monument of historical writing. It's too bad they're also far too expensive, at least in French. There hasn't been a reprint in 20 years.
Re: Reading Notes on Braudel's “Civilization and Capitalism”
#10I hadn't heard of these books before, though skimming the summary, I'd very much like to read them -or the first volume at the very least.
But the content and size of the volumes strikes me as the sort that requires continuous engagement to be of most use.
If anyone's interested in forming a book club around this, feel free to email me at hn(αt)crocodiletears.cc