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4 produkter
Milk
A Local and Global History
Häftad, 2012
951 kr
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A historian reveals the illuminating history of milk, from ancient myth to modern grocery storeHow did an animal product that spoils easily, carries disease, and causes digestive trouble for many of its consumers become a near-universal symbol of modern nutrition? In the first cultural history of …
Invention of Scarcity
Malthus and the Margins of History
Inbunden, 2023
587 kr
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A radical new reading of eighteenth-century British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus, which recovers diverse ideas about subsistence production and environments later eclipsed by classical economics With the publication of Essay on the Principle of Population and its projection of food shortages in …
The Social Life of Money in the English Past
Häftad, 2006
485 kr
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In an age when authoritative definitions of currency were in flux and small change was scarce, money enjoyed a rich and complex social life. Deborah Valenze shows how money became involved in relations between people in ways that moved beyond what we understand as its purely economic functions. …
The Social Life of Money in the English Past
Inbunden, 2006
1391 kr
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In an age when authoritative definitions of currency were in flux and small change was scarce, money enjoyed a rich and complex social life. Deborah Valenze shows how money became involved in relations between people in ways that moved beyond what we understand as its purely economic functions. …
