Deborah Valenze is Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University, in New York City. She is the author of The First Industrial Woman, Prophetic Sons and Daughters: Female Preaching and Popular Religion in Industrial England, and numerous scholarly articles.
List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: the
social life of money, c.1640-1770; Part I. The Relationship Between Money
and Persons: 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, c.1600-1770; Part II. Mutable Meanings of Money, ca.1640-1730: 3.
Circulating mammon: attributes of money in early modern English culture; 4.
Refuge from money's mischief: John Bellers and the Clerkenwell Workhouse;
5. Quarrels over money: The determination of an acquisitive self in the
early eighteenth century; Part III. Regulating People Through Money: 6. The
measure of money: equivalents of personal value in English law; 7. The
price of people: rethinking money and power in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries; 8. Money makes masteries: the triumph of the monetary
self in the long eighteenth century.
