Author Description

Encyclopedic in its epic sweep, Fernand Braudel's The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II is unrivalled as a reconstruction of a total world. Rejecting such narrower specializations as diplomacy, politics and economics, this is a survey of a whole way of life, of a unified region at a specific period in time.In this second volume Professor Braudel brings his massive study to a dramatic climax with the political and physical confrontation of the Spanish-Hapsburg and Ottoman-Turkish empires at the Battle of Lepanto.