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Metals, culture and capitalism : an essay on the origins of the modern world / Jack Goody, St John's College, Cambridge.
- Title
- Metals, culture and capitalism : an essay on the origins of the modern world / Jack Goody, St John's College, Cambridge.
- Author
- Goody, Jack
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012, ©2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | TN615 .G66 2012 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xix, 349 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps; 26 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-329) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781107029620 (hardback)
- 1107029627 (hardback)
- 9781107614475 (pbk.)
- 1107614473 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2012015669
- OCLC
- 793503432
- SCSB-12002256
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library