Metal, culture and capitalism
Subtitle: an essay on the origins of the modern world
By: Jack Goody
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9781107029620; 9781107614475
Subjects: HISTORY / World; Commerce; Metals; Capitalism; Metallurgy; Modern Civilization; History; Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Explorers; title: The age of metals in the ancient Near East; title: A Bronze Age without bronze; title: Metals and society; title: Trade and religion in the Mediterranean; title: The coming of the Iron Age and Classical civilisation; title: After the Romans; title: Part II. Merchants; title: "Capitalism," exchange, and the Near East; title: China and the Eurasian corridor; title: Renewal in the West; title: Venice and the North; title: Part III. Accumulators; title: Iron and the Industrial Revolution; title: Metals, "Capitalism," and the Renaissances; title: Appendix 1: The Metallurgy of Iron / by Dr. J.A. Charles; title: Appendix 2: Damascene Steel and Blades; title: Glossary.