Frank Perlin

'...the book presents highly orginal and bold ideas that merit wide discussion...' Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 54, No. 4

• Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements; Second landscape; Commercial manufacture and the proto-industrialisation thesis; World economic integration before industrialisation and the Euro-Asian marketing and payments continuum - a reinterpretation of monetary order; The other ’species’ world: speciation of commodities and moneys, and the knowledge-base of commerce (1500-1900); Space and order looked at critically: non-comparability and procedural substantivism in history and the social sciences; The material and the cultural: an attempt to transcend the present impasse; Interpreted time and interpreter’s time: mechanicism, organicism and entropy; Languages of separation. An essauy on complicity; Indexes (including subject Index for both Unbroken Landscape and The Invisible City).

Frank Perlin

'...the book presents highly orginal and bold ideas that merit wide discussion...' Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 54, No. 4

• Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements; Second landscape; Commercial manufacture and the proto-industrialisation thesis; World economic integration before industrialisation and the Euro-Asian marketing and payments continuum - a reinterpretation of monetary order; The other ’species’ world: speciation of commodities and moneys, and the knowledge-base of commerce (1500-1900); Space and order looked at critically: non-comparability and procedural substantivism in history and the social sciences; The material and the cultural: an attempt to transcend the present impasse; Interpreted time and interpreter’s time: mechanicism, organicism and entropy; Languages of separation. An essauy on complicity; Indexes (including subject Index for both Unbroken Landscape and The Invisible City).

Frank Perlin

'...the book presents highly orginal and bold ideas that merit wide discussion...' Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 54, No. 4

• Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements; Second landscape; Commercial manufacture and the proto-industrialisation thesis; World economic integration before industrialisation and the Euro-Asian marketing and payments continuum - a reinterpretation of monetary order; The other ’species’ world: speciation of commodities and moneys, and the knowledge-base of commerce (1500-1900); Space and order looked at critically: non-comparability and procedural substantivism in history and the social sciences; The material and the cultural: an attempt to transcend the present impasse; Interpreted time and interpreter’s time: mechanicism, organicism and entropy; Languages of separation. An essauy on complicity; Indexes (including subject Index for both Unbroken Landscape and The Invisible City).