“Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.” — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share
There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share
Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share
Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share
“When the [colonial] contact was violent, in fact, failure was more frequent than success. 'Colonialism' may have triumphed in the past: but today it… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share
History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share
For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share
Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share
The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share
The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share
Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share
Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves little trace in history. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share
The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share
