How long does it take to read The Wheels of Commerce?
Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century Volume 2
The Wheels of Commerce by Fernand Braudel takes about 12 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century
Previous: The Structures of Everyday Life Next: The Perspective of the World
About 12 hours 17 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1982. 670 pages, about 184,250 words.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
TABLE OF CONTENTS: The instruments of exchange. Europe: the wheels of trade at the lowest level -- Europe: the wheels of trade at the highest level -- The world outside Europe -- Concluding hypotheses -- Markets and the economy. Merchants and trade circuits -- Trading profits, supply and demand -- Markets and their geography -- National economies and the balance of trade -- Locating the market -- Production : or capitalism away from home. Capital, capitalist, capitalism -- Land and money -- Capitalism and pre-industry -- Transport and capitalist enterprise -- A rather negative balance sheet -- Capitalism on home ground. Capitalist choices and strategies -- Individual firms and merchant companies -- Back to a threefold division -- Society : `A set of sets' -- Social hierarchies -- The all-pervasive state -- Civilizations do not always put up a fight -- Capitalism outside Europe -- By way of conclusion.
Subjects: Economic history, Social history, Modern Civilization, History, Social aspects, Economic development
