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PUBLISHED
Brooklyn, N.Y. : Melville House, [2011]
©2011
©2011
DESCRIPTION
534 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781933633862 (alk. paper), 1933633867 (alk. paper), 1933633867 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
On the experience of moral confusion -- The myth of barter -- Primordial debts -- Cruelty and redemption -- A brief treatise on the moral grounds of economic relations -- Games with sex and death -- Honor and degradation, or, on the foundations of contemporary civilization -- Credit versus bullion, and the cycles of history -- The axial age (800 BC -- 600 AD) -- The middle ages (600 AD -- 1450 AD) -- Age of the great capitalist empires (1450-1971) -- (1971- )