Braudel's Historiography Reconsidered

The essays collected in this volume represent author Cheng-chung Lai's views on Fernand Braudel's concepts, methodology, and principal books. Through an examination of Braudel's contributions to historiography, Lai focuses on the inner logic and insights presented in Braudel's writings.

Cheng-chung Lai is Professor of Economics at the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan.

Preface

ix

1 Concepts and Methodology

1 Introduction

1

(3)

2 Longue durée, conjoncture, event-history

4

(7)

3 Économic-monde (Economic-world)

11

(7)

4 Total history

18

(5)

5 Methodology

23

(5)

6 Evaluation

28

(4)

2 The Mediterranean (1949)

1 Framework

32

(1)

2 Style

33

(4)

3 Criticisms

37

(1)

4 Economics

38

(3)

5 Conclusion

41

(4)

3 Civilization and Capitalism (1979)

1 Introduction

45

(1)

2 Structure and contents

46

(3)

3 Comments

49

(5)

4 Evaluation

54

(4)

5 Conclusions

58

(1)

Appendix 3.1: Compare with other eight reviews

59

(4)

Appendix 3.2: Uninteresting parts of the book

63

(2)

4 Identity of France (1986)

1 Setting

65

(1)

2 Framework

66

(3)

3 Perplexities

69

(3)

4 Contributions

72

(3)

5 History of Civilizations (1963)

1 Contents

75

(1)

2 Is there exists a grammar in the history of civilizations?

76

(1)

3 History of civilizations and current affairs

77

(2)

4 A high school textbook?

79

(1)

5 On Chinese civilization

80

(1)

6 Conclusion

81

(2)

6 On History (1969)

1 Introduction

83

(1)

2 Comments

84

(6)

3 Evaluation

90

(3)

7 Écrits sur l'histoire II (1990)

1 Contents

93

(1)

2 Historical apprenticeship and personal testimony

94

(1)

3 Price history in Europe, 1450-1750

95

(2)

4 Two biographies

97

(1)

5 Preface to de Tocqueville's Souvenirs

98

(1)

6 Conclusion

98

(1)

Appendix 1 The Italian Model (1974)

99

(4)

Appendix 2 Memories of The Mediterranean (1996, 1998)

103

(6)

Appendix 3 Two Biographies (1995)

109

(6)

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