A study of the production and use of iron and steel in early China, and simultaneously a methodological study of the reconciliation of archaeological and writte

This book explores the economic history of the traditional Chinese iron industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular emphasis on the inte

This book is a study of the production and use of iron and steel in China up to the second century B.C., and simultaneously a methodological study of the reconc

Develops a fresh non-Eurocentric analysis of the rise and development of the global economy in the last half-millennium.

The sword was the most important of weapons, the symbol of the warrior, not to mention the badge of a officer and a gentleman. Much has been written about the a