The structures of everyday life
Subtitle: the limits of the possible
By: Fernand Braudel ; translation from the French ; revised by Sian Reynolds.
Series: Civilization and capitalism, 15th-18th century -- v. 1
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 623
Subjects: Economic history.; Social history -- Modern, 1500-; Civilization, Modern  -- History.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Weight of numbers. Guessing the World Population -- A scale of reference -- The eighteenth century : watershed of biological regimes -- The many against the few -- Daily Bread. Wheat -- Rice -- Maize -- The dietary revolutions of the Eighteenth Century -- The rest of the world -- Superfluity and Sufficiency : food and drink. Eating habits : luxury and the foods of the masses -- Drinks, stimulants and drugs -- Superfluity and Sufficiency : houses, clothes and fashion. Interiors -- Costume and fashion -- The spread of technology : sources of energy, metallurgy. The key problem : sources of energy -- Iron : a poor relation -- The spread of technology : revolution and delays. Three great technological innovations -- Transport -- Problems of the history of technology -- Money. Imperfect currencies and economies -- Outside Europe : early economies and metallic money -- Some rules of the currency game -- Paper money and instruments of credit -- Towns and cities. Towns : the problems of definition -- The originality of  western towns -- The big cities.