UID:
almahu_9949703961202882
Format:
1 online resource (xlix, 522 pages) :
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illustrations (some color), maps.
ISBN:
9789004288355
Series Statement:
Monies, markets, and finance in East Asia, 1600-1900, v. 6
Content:
Money in Asia examines two chronic problems that faced early modern monetary economies in East, South, and Southeast Asia: The inability to provide sufficient amounts of small currencies to facilitate local economic transactions and to control currency depreciation. The studies in this volume analyze the social and economic consequences of small currency scarcity and devaluation on various Asian economies and show how various regimes tried to manage these ever-present challenges. They reveal that those regimes that dealt most successfully with these two issues were those with an integrated national approach to monetary policy. Contributors are: Peter Bernholz, Werner Burger, Cao Jin, Mark Elvin, Dennis O. Flynn, Roger Greatrex, Najaf Haider, Reinier H. Hesselink, Elisabeth Kaske, Man-houng Lin, Jane Kate Leonard, Christine Moll-Murata, Keiko Nagase-Reimer, Shan Kunqin, Shimada Ryūto, Ulrich Theobald, Hans Ulrich Vogel, and Willem Wolters
Note:
Preliminary Material --
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Introduction /
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1 Link-Unit-of-Account versus Ratio-Unit-of-Account Moneys: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Mint Policy /
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2 The Development of Small Early Money in Western Antiquity and Early China /
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3 Fractional Pieces and Non-Metallic Monies in Medieval India (1200-1750) /
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4 The 'Doit Infestation in Java': Exchange Rates between Silver and Copper Coins in Netherlands India in the Period 1816-1854 /
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5 "Silver is Expensive, Cash is Cheap": Official and Private Cash Forgeries as the Main Cause for the Nineteenth-Century Monetary Turmoil /
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6 The Devastation of the Qing Mints, 1821-1850 /
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7 Smoke on the Mountain: The Infamous Counterfeiting Case of Tongzi District, Guizhou Province, 1794 /
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8 Japanese and Vietnamese Coins Circulating in China: A Numismatic Approach /
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9 Copper Cash in Chinese Short Stories Compiled by Feng Menglong (1574-1646) /
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10 Cash Crimes: Why Cash Mattered in Mid-Eighteenth Century Petty Crime /
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11 Legal Conflicts Concerning Wage Payments in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century China: The Baxian Cases /
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12 Coins Which are Not Money: Cultural Functions and Symbolism /
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13 Silver, Copper, Rice and Debt: Monetary Policy and Office Selling in China during the Taiping Rebellion /
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14 Monetary and Non-Monetary Military Rewards in the Early and High-Qing Period (1673-1795) /
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15 The Fixers: The Role of the Zhili Grain Brokers in the 1826 Sea Transport Experiment /
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16 Import Trade in Precious Metals and the Economy of Japan, 1763-c. 1850 /
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17 Copper Transportation in Tokugawa Japan: Its Influence on Copper Shortage in Nagasaki /
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18 A Metal Dealer and Spy from Nagasaki in Manila in the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century /
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Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Money in Asia (1200 - 1900): Small Currencies in Social and Political Contexts Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2015, ISBN 9789004285033
Language:
English
Keywords:
History.
