Name: Out of Italy: Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise
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Author: Fernand Braudel
ISBN: 9781609455347

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Out of Italy: Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise

Type

Physical Book

Author

Fernand Braudel

Publisher

Europa Compass

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781609455347

Synopsis "Out of Italy: Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise "

In the fifteenth century, even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, “Italy” exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean. Its cultural, economic, and political dominance is utterly astonishing and unique in world history. Viewing the Italy―the many Italies―of that time through the lens of today allows us to gather a fragmented, multi-faceted and seemingly contradictory history into a single unifying narrative that speaks to our current reality as much as it does to a specific historical period. This is what the acclaimed French historian, Fernand Braudel, achieves here. He brings to life the two extraordinary centuries that span the Renaissance, Mannerism, and the Baroque and analyzes the complex interaction between art, science, politics and commerce during Italy’s extraordinary cultural flowering.

Fernand Braudel

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Fernand Braudel was a fundamental French historian in the development of the so-called "longue durée history", linked to the Annales School. His most influential work is The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (La Méditerranée, 1949), an innovative synthesis that reformulated traditional historical narrative. Also notable are The Perspective of the World (1979), The Structures of Everyday Life (1979), and The Wheels of Commerce (1985), all authored by him. His approach combines economic history, geography, sociology, and culture, consolidating a new interpretative paradigm.

His works fall into the genre of historical essay, with a strong interdisciplinary component. Braudel was a member of the French Academy and received various recognitions throughout his career, though not literary awards per se. His influence remains key in contemporary historiography for his analysis of social structures beyond specific events.

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