Mining, monies and culture in early modern societies
Subtitle: East Asian and global perspectives
By: edited by Nanny Kim, Keiko Nagase-Reimer
Series: Monies, markets, and finance in East Asia, 1600-1900 -- v. 4; Monies, markets, and finance in East Asia, 1600-1900 -- v. 4.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng; chi; jpn
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9789004242821
Subjects: Mines and mineral resources; Congresses; History; Sources; Metal trade; Government policy; Monetary policy; Precious metals
Description: This book 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.--
Notes: "The majority of the papers were originally presented at the Second International Workshop of the research group on 'Monies, Markets, and Finance in China and East Asia, 1600-1900,' Department of Japanese Studies, Ruhr University, Bochum, 4-6 October 2007."--p. [1].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text in English; some text in Chinese and Japanese with English translations.