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 …

The matter of ideas in the working of metals in early modern Europe :: MPG.PuRe Deutsch
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The beginning of global commerce in the early modern period had an enormous impact on
European culture, changing the very way people perceived the world around them …

Capitalism was born in England, yet the dominant Western conceptions of modernity have
come from elsewhere, notably from France, the historical model of “bourgeois” society. In …

Jack Goody's work on the origins, spatial extent and defining characteristics of modernity
has vigorously questioned claims that only European history led to assorted modern …

Certainly inventors, engineers, and politicians played their parts. But in the making of
Europe, consumers, tinkerers, and rebels were an unrecognized force-until now. In this …

From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933,
Germany was transformed from a poor relation among western nations into a dominant …

Why do people destroy objects and materials that are important to them? This book aims to
make sense of this fascinating, yet puzzling social practice by focusing on a period in history …

To be modern may mean many different things, but for nineteenth-century Europeans'
modernity'suggested a new form of life in which bourgeois activities, people, attitudes and …

In the first of two essays in this Journal, I seek to unify the historical geography of early
modern 'European expansion'(Iberia and Latin America) with the environmental history of …