ISBN: | 9780198709589 |
语种代码: | eng |
个人名称: | Desan, Christine. |
题名: | Making money : coin, currency, and the coming of capitalism / Christine Desan. |
版本说明: | First edition. |
出版发行项: | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014. |
载体形态: | xxii, 478 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
书目附注: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [435]-456) and index. |
格式化内容附注: | Creation stories -- From metal to money: producing the "just penny" -- Commodity money as an extreme sport: flows, famines, debasements, and imitation pennies -- The high politics of medieval money: strong coin, heavy taxes, and the English invention of public credit -- The social stratigraphy of coin and credit in late medieval England -- Priming the pump: the sovereign path towards paying for coin and circulating credit -- Interests, rights, and the currency of public debt -- Reinventing money: the beginning of bank currency -- Re-theorizing money: the struggle over the modern imagination -- The 18th century architecture of modern money -- Epilogue to the 18th century: the gold standard in an era of inconvertibility -- Conclusion: From blood to water. |