Mining, monies, and culture in early modern societies : East Asian and global perspectives / edited by Nanny Kim, Keiko Nagase-Reimer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kim, Nanny.

Nagase-Reimer, Keiko.

Series:

Monies, Markets, and Finance in East Asia, 1600-1900 4.

Monies, Markets, and Finance in East Asia, 1600-1900 ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history.

Mineral industries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mining, Monies, and Culture in Early Modern Societies explores substantial and methodological issues in the early modern history of mining for monetary metals and monies of Japan, China, and Europe. The largest group in the thirteen articles presents empirical research on mining, metallurgy, and metals trade in the context of global trade systems. Another group focuses on the effects of money in government and everyday life. Several articles investigate scroll paintings and material remains as sources for the history of technology, or apply Geographic Information Systems to the analysis of spatial dimensions of mining areas.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Nanny Kim and Keiko Nagase-Reimer

Introduction / Jane Kate Leonard

Chapter One: Developments in Japanese copper metallurgy for coinage and fireign trade in the early Edo period / Izawa Eiji

Chapter Two: Water drainage in the mines in Tokugawa Japan: Technological improvements and economic limitations / Nagase-Reimer Keiko

Chapter Three: Nagasaki: A thorn in the eye of the shogunate? / Bettina Gramlich-Oka

Chapter Four: Silver mines in frontier zones: Chinese mining communities along the southwestern borders of the Qing empire / Yang Yuda

Chapter Five: The administration of mining in late medieval and early modern Europe (fourteenth to eighteenth centuries) / Christoph Bartels

Chapter Six: Keeping books and managing a state transport: Li Bolong's copper convoy of 1807 / Nanny Kim

Chapter Seven: Administrative regulations concerning counterfeiting and their implementation in eighteenth-century China / Roger Greatrex

Chapter Eight: Cash and commerce in the poems of Qing China / Mark Elvin

Chapter Nine: A two-year merchant strike (1636-1637) and the Chinese in Manila: 261 The seventeenth-century crisis in the Philippines / Arturo Giraldez

Chapter Ten: Picture scrolls as a historical source on Japanese mining / Regine Mathias

Chapter Eleven: The Sumitomo copper refinery site: Copper production in the Kodö zuroku and in an Archaeological excavation / Murakumi Ryū

Chapter Twelve: Three scroll maps of the Jinshajiang and the Qing state coppe transport system / Lan Yong

Chapter Thirteen: Geographical dimensions of mining and transport: Case studies in mountains Yunnan / Stefan Dieball and Hans-Joachim Rosner

Index of Names / Nanny Kim and Keiko Nagase-Reimer.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

90-04-25356-4

OCLC:

851316157

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004253568 DOI