Sebastian Felten (Austria Universitat Wien)

Money in the Dutch Republic

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Produktbeschreibung

Sebastian Felten examines regional and global circuits of monetary exchange in early modern Europe by analysing everyday practices in the Dutch Republic. He considers how peasants and craftsmen, stewards and churchmen, merchants and metallurgists combined many types of money in their everyday lives and thus fashioned plural monetary system.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9781009098847
• ISBN-10: 1009098845
• Artikelnr.: 62799650

Autorenporträt

Sebastian Felten is a historian of science, finance, and bureaucracy at the University of Vienna. He was a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin and co-edited Histories of Bureaucratic Knowledge (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Money as social technology
2. Grain money in a farming community
3. Ink money in a princely estate
4. Metallurgy and the making of intrinsic value
5. Mercantile practice and everyday use
6. Patriotic economics and the making of a national currency
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Archival Sources
Bibliography
Index.