1st Edition

Unbroken Landscape Commodity, Category, Sign and Identity; Their Production as Myth and Knowledge from 1500

376 Pages

by Routledge

Description

This book first analyses the material and cultural character of the production and marketing of commodities and payment forms across the Euro-Asian Continuum - the ’second’ or ’unbroken’ landscape - taking up these categories of objects as things communicated and transmitted by producers and merchants. In this the book complements and continues the work collected in the author’s earlier volume.... Read more

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).