The Social life of money in the English past / Deborah Valenze.
The Social life of money in the English past / Deborah Valenze.
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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2006.
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N306.34094/ 1
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English
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p. cm.
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Introduction : the social life of money, ca. 1640-1770 -- 1. Coins of the realm : the development of a demotic sense of money -- 2. The phantasm of money : the animation of exchange media in England, ca. 1600-1770 -- 3. Circulating mammon : attributes of money in early modern English culture -- 4. R...
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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New York (State)
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2006.
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"In an age when authoritative definitions of currency were in flux and small change was scarce, money enjoyed a rich and complex social life. Deborah Valenze shows how money became involved in relations between people in ways that moved beyond what we understand as its purely economic functions. This highly original investigation covers the formati...
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The Social life of money in the English past / Deborah Valenze.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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N306.34094/ 1
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74VKvmE7LEeX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKvmE7LEeX
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0521617804 (pbk.)
9780521852425 (hardback)
0521852420 (hardback)
9780521617802 (pbk.)
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306.34094209032
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991021461539702626
