The Power of Gold
The History of an Obsession
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4491875 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter J Hugill, Peter L Bernstein |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 142 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4140961 |
| OpenAlex | W2025923885 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
Prologue: The Supreme Possession. A METAL FOR ALL SEASONS. Get Gold at All Hazards. Midas's Wish and the Creatures of Pure Chance. Darius's Bathtub and the Cackling of the Geese. The Symbol and the Faith. Gold, Salt, and the Blessed Town. The Legacy of Eoba, Babba, and Udd. The Great Chain Reaction. The Disintegrating Age and the King's Ransoms. The Sacred Thirst. THE PATH TO TRIUMPH. The Fatal Poison and Private Money. The Asian Necropolis and Hien Tsung's Inadvertent Innovation. The Great Recoinage and the Last of the Magicians. The True Doctrine and the Great Evil. The New Mistress and the Cursed Discovery. The Badge of Honor. The Most Stupendous Conspiracy and the Endless Chain. THE DESCENT FROM GLORY. The Norman Conquest. The End of the Epoch. The Transcending Value. World War Eight and the Thirty Ounces of Gold. Epilogue: The Supreme Possession? Notes. Bibliography. Index
Physics · Power (physics · Thermodynamics · Byzantine Studies and History · History
Two Technical Images
The Institutions Curse
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All That Glittered
“Set the Gaze on Fire”
Integrating the Historiography of the Nineteenth‐century Gold Rushes
Stocks, Gold and Inflation - Relationships and Contexts Over the Last 25 Years
Is Gold Jewelry Money
In Search of the Midas Touch
A Litho-Anthropological Study on Jade’s Mythological Narration and Chinese Cultural Origins
Golden alienation
Business returns from gold price fixing and bullion trading on the interwar London market
Going for gold as a leisure tourism continuum
On Not Being a Sign
Making visible the galamsey scandals in Ghana
California Dreaming
Contact, Incorporation, and the North American Southeast
A economia internacional no século XX
Mining and might
The Bountiful Mines of the Indies
German Great–Power Relations in the Pages of Simplicissimus, 1896–1914
Speculative substance
Desafiando conceptualizaciones clásicas sobre el lujo
The spatial restructuring of resource regulation
Poverty, power, and knowledge
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2023 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |