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The structures of everyday life :The limits of the possible
MATERIAL LIFE is made up of people and things. The study of things, of every thing mankind makes or uses food, housing, clothing, luxury, tools, coinage or its substitutes, framework of village and town is not the only way of analysing daily life. The number of people who share the wealth of the world is also significant. The outward feature that immediately differentiates the present world from mankind before 1800 is the recent astonishing increase in the num bers of people World population doubled during the four centuries covered by this book, nowadays it doubles every thirty or forty years. This is obviously the result of material progress. But the number of people is itself as much cause as consequence of this progress
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