The underground wealth of nations : on the capitalist origins of silver mining, A.D. 1150-1450 /

Silver mining was a capitalist business long before the supposed origin of modern capitalism. Hundreds of years before a sixteenth-century crisis in European agriculture led to the origins of capital, investment, and finance, the silver mining industry exhibited many of the features of modern capita...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Graulau, Jeannette (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
Series:Yale series in economic and financial history.
Subjects:
To 1500
Silver mines and mining > Europe > History > To 1500.
Capitalism > Europe > History > To 1500.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
Capitalism
Silver mines and mining
Europe
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Mining the Underground Wealth of Nations: A Word on Theory and History
  • 2. World Mining Regions before the Rise of Modern Capitalism
  • 3. Digging the Underground Wealth of Europe
  • 4. Capitalist Profits of Mining Corporations
  • 5. A 'Lengthy Digression': Why Mining Lagged Elsewhere
  • 6. Capitalist Mining in West European Development
  • Appendix A. German Loanwords in Mining Statutes
  • Appendix B. Carbon Yield and Charcoal Characteristics
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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