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by Fernand Braudel
Who uses, recommends or left Civilization and Capitalism, 15th--18th Century, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
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It's definitely the volume I find least satisfying.
His monthly "Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur" post for September 2024 — the books he read that month and feels he can recommend.
2024-09-30·bactra.org ↗
This is a truly fascinating look at the development of the market economy and capitalism in early modern Europe, and to some extent in the rest of the old world at the same time, full of fascinating information (*) and perspectives, as well as chewy and questionable hypotheses.
His monthly "Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur" post for September 2015 — the books he read that month and feels he can recommend.
2015-09-30·bactra.org ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
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