Metals, Culture and Capitalism: An Essay on the Origins of the Modern World

by Jack Goody

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107614473
• ISBN13: 9781107614475
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 9.6"