Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves little trace in history. — 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 Image
There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
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 Image
All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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