The social life of money in the English past / Deborah Valenze.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valenze, Deborah M., 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Money--Social aspects--England--History--18th century.

Money.

Money--Social aspects--England--History--17th century.

Money--Social aspects.

History.

England--Economic conditions--18th century.

England.

Economic conditions.

England--Economic conditions--17th century.

England--Social conditions--18th century.

Social conditions.

England--Social conditions--17th century.

Physical Description:

xv, 308 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Contents:

Introduction: The Social Life of Money, ca. 1640-1770 1

Part I The Relationship Between Money and Persons 29

1 Coins of the Realm: The Development of a Demotic Sense of Money 31

2 The Phantasm of Money: The Animation of Exchange Media in England, ca. 1600-1770 51

Part II Mutable Meanings of Money, ca. 1640-1730 89

3 Circulating Mammon: Attributes of Money in Early Modern English Culture 91

4 Refuge from Money's Mischief: John Bellers and the Clerkenwell Workhouse 119

5 Quarrels over Money: The Determination of an Acquisitive Self in the Early Eighteenth Century 145

Part III Regulating People Through Money 179

6 The Measure of Money: Equivalents of Personal Value in English Law 181

7 The Price of People: Rethinking Money and Power in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 223

8 Money Makes Masteries: The Triumph of the Monetary Self in the Long Eighteenth Century 260.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-297) and index.

ISBN:

0521852420

0521617804

OCLC:

61879611

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