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Barudel in his three-volume ''Civilisation Matérielle, Economie, et Capitalisme'' (1979) (''Capitalism and Material Life'' ), a sweeping study of preindustrial capitalism the world over, returned to economic themes that interested the ''Annales'' historians of the 1930s but had otherwise been neglected by the school. There is little original research but instead a synthesis of a great deal of work by many scholars, some of it outdated. Braudel prefers descriptive detail rather than theoretical constructs, avoid all economic theory, and uses statistical data as illustration rather than an analytic tool.

Barudel in his three-volume ''Civilisation Matérielle, Economie, et Capitalisme'' (1979) (''Capitalism and Material Life'' ), a sweeping study of preindustrial capitalism the world over, returned to economic themes that interested the ''Annales'' historians of the 1930s but had otherwise been neglected by the school. There is little original research but instead a synthesis of a great deal of work by many scholars, some of it outdated. Braudel prefers descriptive detail rather than theoretical constructs, avoid all economic theory, and uses statistical data as illustration rather than an analytic tool.

Braudel argued that capitalists have typically been monopolists, not, as is usually assumed, entrepreneurs operating in competitive markets.  He argued that capitalists did not specialize and did not use free markets.  He thus diverged from both liberal ([[Adam Smith]]) and [[Marxian]] interpretations.  In Braudel's view, Under capitalism, the state has served as a guarantor of monopolists rather than as the protector of competition usually portrayed. He said capitalists have had power and cunning on their side, and they have been arrayed against the majority of the population. Few historians have followed up this lead.<ref>Immanuel Wallerstein, "Braudel on Capitalism, or Everything Upside Down." ''Journal of Modern History'' 1991 63(2): 354-361. Issn: 0022-2801 Fulltext: [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-2801%28199106%2963%3A2%3C354%3ABOCOEU%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2  in Jstor]</ref>

Braudel argued that capitalists have typically been monopolists, not, as is usually assumed, entrepreneurs operating in competitive markets.  He argued that capitalists did not specialize and did not use free markets.  He thus diverged from both liberal ([[Adam Smith]]) and Marxian interpretations.  In Braudel's view, Under capitalism, the state has served as a guarantor of monopolists rather than as the protector of competition usually portrayed. He said capitalists have had power and cunning on their side, and they have been arrayed against the majority of the population. Few historians have followed up this lead.<ref>Immanuel Wallerstein, "Braudel on Capitalism, or Everything Upside Down." ''Journal of Modern History'' 1991 63(2): 354-361. Issn: 0022-2801 Fulltext: [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-2801%28199106%2963%3A2%3C354%3ABOCOEU%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2  in Jstor]</ref>

* Braudel, Fernand.  ''The Identity of France: History and Environment; People and Production'' (2 vols., 1988–90)

* Braudel, Fernand.  ''The Identity of France: History and Environment; People and Production'' (2 vols., 1988–90)

* Braudel, Fernand.  ''Autour de la Mediterranée'' (1996); translated as ''Memory and the Mediterranean,'' (2002) [https://www.amazon.com/Memory-Mediterranean-Fernand-Braudel/dp/0375703993/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197885337&sr=1-8 excerpt and text search]

* Braudel, Fernand.  ''Autour de la Mediterranée'' (1996); translated as ''Memory and the Mediterranean,'' (2002) [https://www.amazon.com/Memory-Mediterranean-Fernand-Braudel/dp/0375703993/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197885337&sr=1-8 excerpt and text search]

* Braudel, Fernand.  ''Les Ambitions de l'Histoire'' (1997)  

* Braudel, Fernand.  ''Les Ambitions de l'Histoire'' (1997)

 

==Bibliography==

==Bibliography==

* Aurell, Jaume. "Autobiographical Texts as Historiographical Sources: Rereading Fernand Braudel and Annie Kriegel." ''Biography'' 2006 29(3): 425-445. Issn: 0162-4962 Fulltext: [[Project Muse]]

* Aurell, Jaume. "Autobiographical Texts as Historiographical Sources: Rereading Fernand Braudel and Annie Kriegel." ''Biography'' 2006 29(3): 425-445. Issn: 0162-4962 Fulltext: [[Project Muse]]