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Mining, monies, and culture in Early Modern societies : East Asian and global perspectives /
This book explores substantial and methodological issues in the early modern history of mining for monetary metals and monies of Japan, China, and Europe. The largest group in the thirteen articles presents empirical research on mining, metallurgy, and metals trade in the context of global trade sys...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Chino Japonés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2013.
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| Colección: | Monies, markets, and finance in East Asia, 1600-1900 ;
v. 4. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. 1. Developments in Japanese copper metallurgy for coinage and foreign trade in the early Edo period
- ch. 2. Water drainage in the mines in Tokugawa Japan : technological improvements and economic limitations
- ch. 3. Nagasaki : a thorn in the eye of the Shogunate?
- ch. 4. Silver mines in frontier zones : Chinese mining communities along the Southwestern borders of the Qing Empire
- ch. 5. The administration of mining in late medieval and early modern Europe (fourteenth to eighteenth centuries)
- ch. 6. Keeping books and managing a state transport : Li Bolong's copper convoy of 1807
- ch. 7. Administrative regulations concerning counterfeiting and their implementation in eighteenth-century China
- ch. 8. Cash and commerce in the poems of Qing China
- ch. 9. A two-year merchant strike (1636-1637) and the Chinese in Manila : the seventeenth-century crisis in the Philippines
- ch. 10. Picture scrolls as a historical source on Japanese mining
- ch. 11. The Sumitomo copper refinery site : copper production in the Kodo Zuroku and in an archaeological excavation
- ch. 12. Three scroll maps of the Jinshajiang and the Qing state copper transport system
- ch. 13. Geographical dimensions of mining and transport : case studies in mountainous Yunnan.