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Metals, Culture and Capitalism : an essay on the origins of the modern world by Goody, Jack is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 Ea

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Goody, Jack
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9781107029620
Category
history
Subjects
Engineering, Technology, History
Updated
2026-03-24

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