Book Synopsis This reissue of Fernand Braudels great work brings the original back in print and looks at the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixteenth century. The focus of Fernand Braudels work is the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixteenth century, but Braudel ranges back in history to the world of Odysseus and forward to our time, moving out from the Mediterranean area to the New World and other destinations of Mediterranean traders. Braudels scope embraces the natural world and material life, economics, demography, politics, and diplomacy. From the Back Cover Braudels Mediterranean is a tour de force, one of the classics of this centurys historical writing.--Charles Tilly, author of As Sociology Meets History About the Author Fernand Braudel (1902-1985) was a member of the editorial board of Annales and of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, and chief adminsitrator of the Maison des Sciences de lHomme. His three-volume work, Civilization and Capitalism , is available from California.