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Metals, Culture and Capitalism: An Essay on the Origins of the Modern World
Jack Goody
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paperback. A landmark exploration of the role of metals across Europe and Asia from the Bronze Age to the Industrial Revolution. Num Pages: 366 pages, 12 b/w illus. 14 maps. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 174 x 19. Weight in Grams: 758. An Essay on the Origins of the Modern World. 256 pages, 12 b/w illus. 14 maps. A landmark exploration of the role of metals across Europe and Asia from the Bronze Age to the Industrial Revolution. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: HBG. Dimension: 245 x 174 x 19. Weight: 756.
Metals, Culture and Capitalism is an ambitious, broad-ranging account of the search for metals in Europe and the Near East from the Bronze Age to the Industrial Revolution and the relationship between this and economic activity, socio-political structures and the development of capitalism. Continuing his criticism of Eurocentric traditions, a theme explored in The Theft of History (2007) and Renaissances (2009), Jack Goody takes the Bronze Age as a starting point for a balanced account of the East and the West, seeking commonalities that recent histories overlook. Considering the role of metals in relation to early cultures, the European Renaissance ... Read more
Metals, Culture and Capitalism is an ambitious, broad-ranging account of the search for metals in Europe and the Near East from the Bronze Age to the Industrial Revolution and the relationship between this and economic activity, socio-political structures and the development of capitalism. Continuing his criticism of Eurocentric traditions, a theme explored in The Theft of History (2007) and Renaissances (2009), Jack Goody takes the Bronze Age as a starting point for a balanced account of the East and the West, seeking commonalities that recent histories overlook. Considering the role of metals in relation to early cultures, the European Renaissance ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
366
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107614475
SKU
V9781107614475
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About Jack Goody
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 ... Read more
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