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