A history of money : from ancient times to the present day / Glyn Davies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davies, Glyn, 1919-2003.

Contributor:

Julian Hodge Bank.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Money--History.

Money.

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 696 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 1994.

Contents:

Foreword

Preface

1. The nature and origins of money and barter

2. From primitive and ancient money to the invention of coinage, 3000-600 BC

3. The development of Greek and Roman money, 600 BC-AD 400

4. The penny and the pound in medieval European money, 410-1485

5. The expansion of trade and finance, 1485-1640

6. The birth and early growth of British banking, 1640-1789

7. The ascendancy of sterling, 1789-1914

8. British monetary development in the twentieth century

9. American monetary development since 1700

10. Aspects of monetary development in Europe and Japan

11. Third World money and debt in the twentieth century

12. Global money in historical perspective

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

"Published in co-operation with Julian Hodge Bank Limited."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [657]-676) and index.

ISBN:

0708312462 :

OCLC:

30545183