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Index
Metals, Culture and Capitalism
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of maps
List of plates
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Part I Explorers
1 The Age of Metals in 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 (J. A. Charles)
Appendix 2: Damascene steel and blades
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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