Silver /
From silver spoons to silver bullets, silver permeates our everyday culture and language. For millennia we have used it to buy what we need, adorn our bodies and trumpet our social status. Silver vanquishes our insecurities, as well as vampires and werewolves. Once valued primarily for its beauty an...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Reaktion Books,
2017.
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| Series: | Earth series (Reaktion Books (Firm))
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Table of Contents:
- Preface : a silver object lesson
- The nature of silver
- Silver landscapes
- Silver transformed
- Empire building : two coins that changed the world
- Rivers of silver from the new world to the middle kingdom
- The new flow of demand
- Status symbols
- Pure.