Capitalism & Material Life, 1400-1800 (Harper Torchbooks,)

"Capitalism and Material Life is an exciting work with a lofty theme, and only an unusually learned and intellectually ambitious man could have written it. ... [In] the end all criticisms of the achievement of Fernand Braudel are disarmed by the sheer stature of the man, the brilliance of the writing, the range of the erudition, the largeness of vision, the passionate interest in human life." -- Keith Thomas, The New York Review of Books