Metals, Culture and Capitalism [Texte imprimé] : an essay on the origins of the modern world / Jack Goody

Bibliogr. p. 312-329

Part I. Explorers -- The age of metals in the ancient Near East -- A Bronze Age without bronze -- Metals and society -- Trade and religion in the Mediterranean -- The coming of the Iron Age and Classical civilisation -- After the Romans -- Part II. Merchants -- "Capitalism," exchange, and the Near East -- China and the Eurasian corridor -- Renewal in the West -- Venice and the North -- Part III. Accumulators -- Iron and the Industrial Revolution -- Metals, "Capitalism," and the Renaissances -- Appendix 1: The Metallurgy of Iron / by Dr. J.A. Charles -- Appendix 2: Damascene Steel and Blades -- Glossary