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A Cultural History of Money in the Age of Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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A Cultural History of Money in the Age of Enlightenment (Hardcover)
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
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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.
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