The State and the Iron Industry in Han China.(Book Review)
From: The Historian
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Date: 3/22/2004
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Author: Roberts, J.A.G.
The State and the Iron Industry in Han China. By Donald B. Wagner. (Copenhagen: NIAS Publishing, 2001. Pp. 148. $45.00.)
In this short study, the author returns to the theme that he first addressed at a conference held in San Francisco in 1980: the use of archaeological material in the writing of Chinese history. Donald B. Wagner's main concern is to relate the archaeology of the iron industry in Han China to the introduction of the iron monopoly and to the famous debate on state ...
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