Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction ix
5. PART 1 Reconstructing and Representing the Original Landscape
6. Chapter 1 On the Shores of Bohemia: Recovering Geography 3
7. PART 2 Economic Theory and Practice in Early Modern History
8. Chapter 2 City and Countryside in Spain: Changing Structures, Changing Relationships, 1450–1850 35
9. Chapter 3 Great Expectations: Early Modern History and the Social Sciences 71
10. PART 3 Social and Cultural Matrices of Collective Destinies 99
11. Chapter 4 Images of Society 101
12. Chapter 5 Civilizations and Frontiers: Anthropology of the Early Modern Mediterranean 123
13. PART 4 Crises and Transformations: Politics and People
14. Chapter 6 Dust and Ashes: The History of Politics and War 145
15. Chapter 7 The Longue Durée and Cycles of Revolt in European History 169
16. PART 5 Constructing Identities from Mentalité
17. Chapter 8 Early Modern Law and the Anthropological Imagination of Old European Culture 191
18. Chapter 9 Strategies of Survival Minority Cultures in the Western Mediterranean 205
19. PART 6 Worlds beyond the Mediterranean
20. Chapter 10 Braudel and China 225
21. Chapter 11 Plus Ultra: America and the Changing European Notions of Time and Space 255
22. Contributors 275
23. A Short Braudel Bibliography 277
24. Index 279