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