Sebastian Felten

Money in the Dutch Republic (eBook, ePUB)

Everyday Practice and Circuits of Exchange

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Dutch Republic was an important hub in the early modern world-economy, a place where hundreds of monies were used alongside each other. Sebastian Felten explores regional, European and global circuits of exchange by analysing everyday practices in Dutch cities and villages in the period 1600-1850. He reveals how for peasants and craftsmen, stewards and churchmen, merchants and metallurgists, money was an everyday social technology that helped them to carve out a livelihood. With vivid examples of accounting and assaying practices, Felten offers a key to understanding the internal logic of early modern money. This book uses new archival evidence and an approach informed by the history of technology to show how plural currencies gave early modern users considerable agency. It explores how the move to uniform national currency limited this agency in the nineteenth century and thus helps us make sense of the new plurality of payments systems today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009116473
• Artikelnr.: 66177078

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.