Format:
1 Online-Ressource (231 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9781474206822
Series Statement:
The cultural histories series Volume 4
Content:
List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Preface -- Introduction: Strange New Music - The Monetary Composition Made by the Enlightenment Quartet, Christine Desan -- 1. -- Money and its Technologies: Industrial Opposition and the Problem of Trust, Mara Caden 2. -- Money and its Ideas: -- Enlightenment Debates about the Morality of Money, Carl Wennerlind -- 3. -- Money, Ritual, and Religion: A Secularization Story, Dwight Codr -- 4. -- Money and the Everyday: New Practices in the Enlightenment, Craig Muldrew 5. -- Money, Art, and Representation: The Look and Sound of Money, Rebecca L. Spang 6. -- Money and its Interpretation: Paper Money in Early America, Jennifer J. Baker -- 7. -- Money and the Issues of the Age: Thinking about Money in the Eighteenth Century, Daniel Carey -- Notes Bibliography Index
Content:
"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."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474237079
Additional Edition:
ISBN 147423707X
Additional Edition:
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Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781474206822
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