Jack Goody

Metals, Culture and Capitalism

An Essay on the Origins of the Modern World

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Produktbeschreibung

A landmark exploration of the role of metals across Europe and Asia from the Bronze Age to the Industrial Revolution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 172mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 757g
• ISBN-13: 9781107614475
• ISBN-10: 1107614473
• Artikelnr.: 36198464

Autorenporträt

Jack Goody is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College. Recently knighted by Her Majesty The Queen for services to anthropology, Professor Goody has researched and taught all over the world, is a Fellow of the British Academy and in 1980 was made a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2004 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and he was elected Commandeur des Arts et Lettres in 2006.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Explorers: 1. The age of metals and the ancient Near East
2. A Bronze Age without bronze
3. Metals and society
4. Trade and religion in the Mediterranean
5. The coming of the Iron Age and classical civilisation
6. After the Romans
Part II. Merchants: 7. 'Capitalism', exchange, and the Near East
8. China and the Eurasian corridor
9. Renewal in the West
10. Venice and the North
Part III. Accumulators: 11. Iron and the Industrial Revolution
12. Metals, 'capitalism' and the Renaissances
Appendix 1. The metallurgy of iron (by Dr J. A. Charles)
Appendix 2. Damascene steel and blades
Glossary.