cover image Perspective of the World

Perspective of the World

Fernand Braudel. HarperCollins Publishers, $22.5 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-06-091296-3

This book concludes French historian Braudel's groundbreaking trilogy, in which he concentrates on the ordinary human activities that underlie modern politics, commerce and culture. Here he tells the story of Western Europe's gradual domination of international trade in the modern era. ""A magisterial work,'' PW observed. (May)