The Identity of France: Vol. 1: History and Environment
Fernand Braudel
432 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0060916435
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 1990
A new approach to the history of France, looking at the country’s physical and geographical features as factors which have shaped its past. Braudel questions the origins of frontiers, the growth of towns, how Paris became the capital and how France’s unification came about.