Making Money: Coin, Currency and the Coming of Capitalism
Desan, Christine
Making Money: Coin, Currency and the Coming of Capitalism - Oxford Oxford University Press 2014 - 478p
1. Creation stories
2. From metal to money: Producing the "just penny"
3. Commodity money as an extreme sport: Flows, famines, debasements, and imitation pennies
4. The high politics of medieval money: Strong coin, heavy taxes, and the English invention of public credit
5. The social stratigraphy of coin and credit in late medieval England
6. Priming the pump: The sovereign path towards paying for coin and circulating credit
7. Interests, rights, and the currency of public debt
8. Reinventing money: The beginning of bank currency
9. Re-theorizing money: The struggle over the modern imagination
10. The 18th century architecture of modern money
11. Epilogue to the 18th century: The Gold Standard in an era of inconvertibility
9780198709589
Money - Law and Legislation - England - History
343.03209 / DES
Making Money: Coin, Currency and the Coming of Capitalism - Oxford Oxford University Press 2014 - 478p
1. Creation stories
2. From metal to money: Producing the "just penny"
3. Commodity money as an extreme sport: Flows, famines, debasements, and imitation pennies
4. The high politics of medieval money: Strong coin, heavy taxes, and the English invention of public credit
5. The social stratigraphy of coin and credit in late medieval England
6. Priming the pump: The sovereign path towards paying for coin and circulating credit
7. Interests, rights, and the currency of public debt
8. Reinventing money: The beginning of bank currency
9. Re-theorizing money: The struggle over the modern imagination
10. The 18th century architecture of modern money
11. Epilogue to the 18th century: The Gold Standard in an era of inconvertibility
9780198709589
Money - Law and Legislation - England - History
343.03209 / DES