book of the week

Braudel's trilogy on the structure of everyday life is available on Intenet Archives.

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most histories concentrate on "great men", kings and wars. This series is about technology, trade, and how ordinary people lived.

A bit hard to slog through because of it's length, but easy to read: I have two of the three volumes in hard cover, so usually I just look up something and then read a few pages. But I am happy to get my missing volume and be able to read the series on my tablet.