Add this copy of The Structures of Everyday Life: the Limits of the to cart. $102.00, good condition, Sold by Expatriate Bookshop rated 1.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Svendborg, DENMARK, published 1981 by Harper & Row.
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Textual maps, photos, graphs. Minor rubbing. Some light stains to binding. VG., dustwrapper. 24x17cm, 623 pp, Some light top page-edge spotting. Series: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1. Contents: Weight of Numbers: Guessing the world population; A scale of reference; The eighteenth century: watershed of biological régimes; The many against the few; Daily Bread: Wheat; Rice; Maize; The dietary revolutions of the 18. th century; The rest of the world; Superfluity and Sufficiency: Food and Drink: Eating habits: luxury and the foods of the masses; Drinks, stimulants and drugs; Superfluity and Sufficiency: Houses, Clothes and Fashion: Houses throughout the world; Interiors; Costume and fashion; The Spread of Technology: Sources of Energy, Metallurgy: The key problem: sources of energy; Iron: a poor relation; The Spread of Technology: Revolution and Delays: Three great technological innovations; Transport; Problems of the history of technology; Money: Imperfect currencies and economies; Outside Europe: early economies and metallic money; Some rules of the currency game; Paper money and instruments of credit; Towns and Cities; Towns: The problems of definition; The originality of Western towns; The big cities.
