Conversation so far:
What is La Mediteranee for Fernand Braudel?
His first book, La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen à l'Epoque de Philippe II (1949) (The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II)

Question: what was the topic?
Self-contained rewrite: what was the topic of La Mediteranee by Fernand Braudel?