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A Cultural History of Money in the Age of Enlightenment

Hardback

Main Details

Title A Cultural History of Money in the Age of Enlightenment
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Professor Christine Desan
Edited by Professor Christine Desan
Series edited by Professor Bill Maurer
SeriesThe Cultural Histories Series
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 244,Width 169
Category/GenreCoins, banknotes, medals and seals
ISBN/Barcode 9781474237079
ClassificationsDewey:332.49
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations 46 bw illus

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
NZ Release Date 21 February 2019
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The Enlightenment was a time of monetary turmoil and transformation in Europe. Change began with a riot of experimentation, including novel ideas about human agency and capacity to promote economic progress, efforts to reframe divinity in terms (like the providential) compatible with market exchange, new instruments of credit, and innovative institutions such as national banks and capital markets. Europeans, including the settler societies in North America, improvised frantically: people faced the task of everyday exchange in changing media; governments took up the project of creating currencies that supported their political power; artists and writers raced to represent new forms of wealth and interpret the issues they raised; and intellectuals struggled to conceptualize, and tame, patterns of monetary transformation. The result was a rich debate, still unsettled, about the sources of value, the morality of the market, and the very nature of money. Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, A Cultural History of Money in the Age of Enlightenment presents essays that examine key cultural case studies of the period on the themes of technologies, ideas, ritual and religion, the everyday, art and representation, interpretation, and the issues of the age.

Author Biography

Christine Desan is the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, USA.