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Metals, culture and capitalism : an essay on the origins of the modern world / Jack Goody, St John's College, Cambridge.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goody, Jack.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metallurgy--History.
- Metallurgy.
- History.
- Metallurgy--Social aspects--History.
- Metallurgy--Economic aspects--History.
- Metals--History.
- Metals--Social aspects--History.
- Metals--Economic aspects--History.
- Civilization--History.
- Civilization.
- Civilization, Modern--History.
- Civilization, Modern.
- Capitalism--History.
- Capitalism.
- Commerce--History.
- Commerce.
- Metals--Economic aspects.
- Metals.
- Social aspects.
- Metallurgy--Economic aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 349 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- Part I. Explorers
- The age of metals in the ancient Near East
- A Bronze Age without bronze
- Metals and society
- Trade and religion in the Mediterranean
- The coming of the Iron Age and Classical civilisation
- After the Romans
- Part II. Merchants
- "Capitalism," exchange, and the Near East
- China and the Eurasian corridor
- Renewal in the West
- Venice and the North
- Part III. Accumulators
- Iron and the Industrial Revolution
- Metals, "Capitalism," and the Renaissances
- Appendix 1: The Metallurgy of Iron / by Dr. J.A. Charles
- Appendix 2: Damascene Steel and Blades
- Glossary.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-329) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107029620
- 1107029627
- 9781107614475
- 1107614473
- OCLC:
- 793503432
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