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Tin and Global Capitalism, 1850-2000: A History of the Devil's Metal
ISBN: 9780415737050 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For most of the 20th century tin was fundamental for both warfare and welfare. The widespread use of the tin can created a revolution in food preservation and helped feed both the armies of the great powers and the masses of the new urban society. The tin trade was therefore always a highly politically charged economy, in which states and private enterprise competed and cooperated to assert control over deposits, smelters and markets. This book demonstrates the ways in which the history of a humble metal shaped the evolution of a global economic trade.
For most of the 20th century tin was fundamental for both warfare and welfare. The widespread use of the tin can created a revolution in food preserva...
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Tin and Global Capitalism, 1850-2000: A History of the Devil's Metal
ISBN: 9781138340848 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For most of the twentieth century tin was fundamental for both warfare and welfare. The importance of tin is most powerfully represented by the tin can - an invention which created a revolution in food preservation and helped feed both the armies of the great powers and the masses of the new urban society. The trouble with tin was that economically viable deposits of the metal could only be found in a few regions of the world, predominantly in the southern hemisphere, while the main centers of consumption were in the industrialized north. The tin trade was therefore a highly politically... For most of the twentieth century tin was fundamental for both warfare and welfare. The importance of tin is most powerfully represented by the tin... |
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