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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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The British Numismatic Journal
Author: Public House Tokens in England and Wales C.1830-c.1920
Author: Yolanda C. S. CourtneyPublisher:
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Category : Taverns (Inns)
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Trade Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century in England, Wales, and Ireland
Author: William BoynePublisher:
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Category : Tokens
Languages : en
Pages : 1246
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The Silk Road
Author: Valerie HansenPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190218428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from China to Rome. The reality was different--and far more interesting--as revealed in this new history. In The Silk Road, Valerie Hansen describes the remarkable archeological finds that revolutionize our understanding of these trade routes. For centuries, key records remained hidden--sometimes deliberately buried by bureaucrats for safe keeping. But the sands of the Taklamakan Desert have revealed fascinating material, sometimes preserved by illiterate locals who recycled official documents to make insoles for shoes or garments for the dead. Hansen explores seven oases along the road, from Xi'an to Samarkand, where merchants, envoys, pilgrims, and travelers mixed in cosmopolitan communities, tolerant of religions from Buddhism to Zoroastrianism. There was no single, continuous road, but a chain of markets that traded between east and west. China and the Roman Empire had very little direct trade. China's main partners were the peoples of modern-day Iran, whose tombs in China reveal much about their Zoroastrian beliefs. Silk was not the most important good on the road; paper, invented in China before Julius Caesar was born, had a bigger impact in Europe, while metals, spices, and glass were just as important as silk. Perhaps most significant of all was the road's transmission of ideas, technologies, and artistic motifs. The Silk Road is a fascinating story of archeological discovery, cultural transmission, and the intricate chains across Central Asia and China.
Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles
Author: Colin Stewart Sinclair LyonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
v. 69- published by Spink & Son Limited.
Metallurgy in Numismatics
Author: Metallurgy in Numismatics
Author: David Michael MetcalfPublisher:
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Category : Metallurgy
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Consuming Splendor
Author: Linda Levy PeckPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521842327
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
A fascinating study of the ways in which consumption transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy in seventeenth-century England. It reveals for the first time the emergence of consumer society in seventeenth-century England.
How a Ledger Became a Central Bank
Author: Stephen QuinnPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108484271
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
A quantitative history of the Bank of Amsterdam, a dominant central bank for much of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This book should interest monetary economists, scholars of central bank history, and historians of the Dutch Republic.
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