A Cultural History of Money in the Age of Enlightenment

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Professor Christine Desan (Harvard University, USA) Professor Bill Maurer (University of California, Irvine, USA)

A Cultural History of Money in the Age of Enlightenment

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ISBN: 9781474237079

Professor Christine Desan (Harvard University, USA), Professor Bill Maurer (University of California, Irvine, USA), Professor Bill Maurer (University of California, Irvine, USA)

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Bloomsbury Academic
11 March 2021

Social & cultural history; Coins, banknotes, medals, seals (numismatics)

Series: The Cultural Histories Series

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.

Edited by: Professor Christine Desan (Harvard University USA)
Series edited by: Professor Bill Maurer (University of California Irvine USA), Professor Bill Maurer (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 640g
ISBN: 9781474237079
ISBN 10: 147423707X
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 11 March 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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