A cultural history of money in the age of empire / edited by Federico Neiburg and Nigel Dodd.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Neiburg, Federico, editor.

Series:

Cultural histories series

A cultural history of money ; Volume 5

The cultural histories series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Money--History.

Money.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 pages) : illustrations.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Summary:

"The nineteenth century was a time of intense monetization of social life: increasingly money became the only means of access to goods and services, especially in the new metropolises; new technologies and infrastructures emerged for saving and circulating money and for standardizing coinage; and paper currencies were printed, founded purely on trust without any intrinsic metallic value. But the monetary landscape was ambivalent so that the forces unifying monetary practice (imperial and national currencies, global monetary standards such as the gold standard) coexisted with the proliferation of local currencies. Money became a central issue in politics, the arts, and sciences - and the modern discipline of economics was born, with its claim to a monopoly on knowing and governing money. Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, A Cultural History of Money in the Age of Empire 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Preface

Introduction: Monetary Landscapes of the Nineteenth-Century, Federico Neiburg and Nigel Dodd 1

Money and its Technologies: Inventing the Future through Money - Images of Monetization in Nineteenth Century American Patents, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra 2

Money and its Ideas: Colonial Currencies, Money Illusions, G. Balachandran 3

Money, Ritual, and Religion: Reason, Race, and the Re-enchantment of the World, Bill Maurer 4

Money and the Everyday: Paper Money, Community, and Nationalism in the Antebellum US, Michael O'Malley 5

Money, Art, and Representation: 't'was only a balloon' - Seeing and Satire in the Cultural History of Money, Nicky Marsh 6

Money and its Interpretation: The Century of Mobility and Acceleration and its Money, Leopoldo Waizbort 7

Money and the Issues of the Age, Nigel Dodd

Notes Bibliography Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781474206815

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.