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University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California 1992 First published in France in 1979. English translation published in 1982 in the U.K. by William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd and in the U.S. by Harper & Row, Publishers from 1982 to 1984. English translation by Siân Reynolds (revised for Volume One). Volume One: The Structures of Everyday Life: 623, [1] p.: 171 illustrations, 29 maps and graphs. Volume Two: The Wheels of Commerce: 670, [1] p.: 129 illustrations, 29 maps and graphs. Volume Three: The Perspective of the World: 699, [1] p.: 106 illustrations, 58 maps and graphs; 23 cm. (9 inches). Paperbacks, with glossy, color illustrated front covers, featuring (Volume One), detail from Brueghel the Elder's The Fall of Icarus, from the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; (Volume Two), detail from Hans Holbein's Portrait of the Merchant George Grisze, courtesy of the Staatliche Museum, Berlin, Bridgman Art Library; (Volume Three): Portuguese Merchants in India Dining with Their Feet in Water, from the Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome, Ms 1889, 16th century Each volume includes Notes and Index "'Revolutionary in scope, scale and ambition . . . . A masterpiece of modern scholarship, Civilization and Capitalism belongs beside the great histories of Thucydides and Jacob Burckhardt - and beside the great treatises on social theory by Karl Marx and Max Weber'" [Excerpt on the back cover of Volume Three of a Newsweek review by Jim Miller)
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