Early Modern History and the Social Sciences: Testing the Limits of Braudel’s Mediterranean

This collection of eleven essays furthers the dialogue between early modern history and the social sciences through an analysis of Fernand Braudel's The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World of Philip II. The contributors review various historiographical traditions to arrive at conclusions on contemporary theory and practice in the exchange between history and the disciplines of geography, economics, sociology, anthropology, politics (diplomatic history and the study of revolutions), psychology (law), religion, and area studies (China and the Americas).
Contributors
Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge
Jan de Vries, University of California, Berkeley
Mark Elvin, Australian National University, Canberra
Jack A. Goldstone, University of California, Davis
Antonio Manuel Hespanha, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Henry Kamen, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Institució
Milà i Fontanals, Barcelona
John A. Marino, University of California, San Diego
Ottavia Niccoli, Università degli Studi di Trento
Anthony Pagden, University of California, Los Angeles
M. J. Rodríguez-Salgado, London School of Economics
Bartolomé Yun Casalilla, Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla