From the silver Czech tolar to a worldwide dollar : the birth of the dollar and its journey of monetary circulation in Europe and the world from the 16th to the 20th century / Petr Vorel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vorel, Petr.

Series:

East European monographs ; no. 798.

East European monographs ; no. 798

Standardized Title:

Od českého tolaru ke světovému dolaru. English

Language:

Czech

English

Subjects (All):

Money--History.

Money.

History.

Dollar--History.

Dollar.

Dollar (Coin)--History.

Dollar (Coin).

Coins, Czech--History.

Coins, Czech.

Taler--History.

Taler.

Physical Description:

vii, 191 pages, 80 plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

[New York, NY] : Columbia University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Petr Vorel (born 1963) is a Czech historian, numismatist and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy at the University of Pardubice (Czech Republic). His long-term research interest is the economic and political history of Central Europe and specifically with the history of monetary circulation. Currently he is the Chairman of the Czech National Committee of the Czech National Committee of Historians. Since 1970, East European Monographs has published over 800 scholarly works on the history, culture, and civilization of Central and Eastern Europe. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 European Silver and Coins at the Turn of the 15th and 16th Centuries 1

Chapter 2 The First Appearance of the Thaler in Jáchymov 27

Chapter 3 The Struggle over the Thaler in Central Europe in the 16th Century 53

Chapter 4 Thalers and the European Wars during the 16th to 18th Centuries 73

Chapter 5 The Conventional Thaler and the World Market in the 18th and 19th Centuries 101

Chapter 6 Thalers and Dollars in America 123

Chapter 7 The Dollar and its Expansion in the 19th and 20th Centuries 145.

Notes:

Translated from the Czech.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780880337052

0880337052

OCLC:

794366393