Mark Hudson Knihy

The book explores the implications of recent interdisciplinary studies on the Bronze Age, particularly focusing on long-distance trade and political decentralization. It introduces the concept of 'bronzisation' as a form of proto-globalization and examines its applicability to East Asia, particularly Island East Asia. The author analyzes maritime interactions and warrior culture within a comparative Eurasian context, arguing that Bronze Age trade fostered decentralized complexity in regions outside major alluvial states. The notion of the 'barbarian niche' is introduced to model premodern Eurasian history.

During the outbreak of plague that finally killed him, Titian's studio was looted, and many paintings taken. What happened to them is not known. This book is an exploratory history of the artist and his world that vividly recreates the atmosphere of 16th-century Venice and Europe.

Consumption used to be a disease. Now it is the dominant manner in which most people meet their most basic needs and – if they can afford the price – their wildest desires. In this new book, Ian and Mark Hudson critically examine how consumption has been understood in economic theory before analyzing its centrality to our social lives and function in contemporary capitalism. They also outline the consequences it has for people and nature, consequences routinely made invisible in the shopping mall or online catalogue. Hudson and Hudson show, in an approachable manner, how patterns of consumption are influenced by cultures, individual preferences and identity formation before arguing that underlying these determinants is the unavoidable need within capitalism to realize profit. This accessible and comprehensive book will be essential reading for students and scholars of political economy, economics and economic sociology, as well as any reader who wants to confront their own practices of consumption in a meaningful way.

De mannelijke auteur beschrijft zijn ervaringen tijdens een verblijf van 14 maanden in Gambia.