Might have to break my rule to never bother reading classics and read Braudel. Is there like a cliff notes version?
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I’m moving into “A thousand Years of Non-linear History” and War in the Age of Inteligent machines” which are supposed to be very influenced by Braudel. Then maybe circle back to him or go for Eric Hobsbawm “The Age of “Extremes
amazon.com/Thousand-Years
amazon.com/War-Intelligen
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You will enjoy walking through every room of the grand museum, but walk quickly through the ones that are of less interest to you.
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Braudel is amazing, but it’s easier to take a class on him by someone who read him well
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Braudel defies tl:dr-ing. The whole point is the incremental accumulation of detail.
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Unless you want to seem "educated" you should probably skip Braudel. His thing was commodity history instead of national or big-man history. Perhaps conceptual object history too, like _the history of underwear. Been done a million times at this point.
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