Publication

2006 - Cambridge University Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

77,000 words, Guess

Page Count

308 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing1791995
  • Goodreads1208288

Classifications

  • DDC306.3/4094209032
  • LCCHG950.E54 V35 2006

Description

"In an age when authoritative definitions of currency were in flux and small change was scarce, money enjoyed a rich and complex social life. Deborah Valenze shows how money became involved in relations between people in ways that moved beyond what we understand as its purely economic functions. This highly original investigation covers the formative period of commercial and financial development in England between 1630 and 1800. In a series of interwoven essays, Valenze examines religious prohibitions related to avarice, early theories of political economy, an experimental workhouse banning money, and exchange practices of the Atlantic economy."--Jacket.

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