دانلود کتاب The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession

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Content: Foreword ix Acknowledgments xiii PROLOGUE: The Supreme Possession 1 A METAL FOR ALL SEASONS 1. Get Gold at All Hazards 9 2. Midas s Wish and the Creatures of Pure Chance 18 3. Darius s Bathtub and the Cackling of the Geese 38 4. The Symbol and the Faith 52 5. Gold, Salt, and the Blessed Town 66 6. The Legacy of Eoba, Babba, and Udd 74 7. The Great Chain Reaction 85 8. The Disintegrating Age and the Kings Ransoms 96 9. The Sacred Thirst 114 THE PATH TO TRIUMPH 10. The Fatal Poison and Private Money 135 11. The Asian Necropolis and Hien Tsung s Inadvertent Innovation 158 12. The Great Recoinage and the Last of the Magicians 175 13. The True Doctrine and the Great Evil 198 14. The New Mistress and the Cursed Discovery 219 15. The Badge of Honor 239 16. The Most Stupendous Conspiracy and the Endless Chain 260 THE DESCENT FROM GLORY 17. The Norman Conquest 283 18. The End of the Epoch 306 19. The Transcending Value 328 20. World War Eight and the Thirty Ounces of Gold 346 EPILOGUE: The Supreme Possession? 367 Notes 373 Bibliography 397 Index 409