In the first half of the nineteenth century, the British sought to master the physical properties of the oceans; in the second half, they lorded over large port

First two volumes of a projected seven-volume series dealing with the history of the entire world.

"Braudel's Mediterranean is a tour de force, one of the classics of this century's historical writing."—Charles Tilly, author of As Sociology Meets History

Based on the author's thesis (Doctoral--University of Hong Kong, 2005).