Money, Coinage and Colonialism

Nanouschka Myrberg Burström is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at Stockholm University, Sweden. Fleur Kemmers is Professor of Coinage and Money in the Graeco-Roman World at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Part I: Powerplay; 1. Viking Money and Colonisation in Ninth-Century England; 2. The late medieval colonial condition of the southern Balkans and the Aegean in the light of coinage; 3. Keep out the coins! Colonialist approaches to northern Norway by the German Hansa?; 4. Exchanging Coins in Colonial Bombay: Coin Collectors and Scholars at the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society;5. Japanese invasion money in the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia (1942–1965): objects of violence, oppression and resistance; Part II: Crossovers; 6. Republican Rome in Colonial Discourses: ‘Consuming’ Provincial Coinages in the Eastern Mediterranean; 7. Monetisation, wealth and material histories in the colonial Andes; 8 First contacts, first exchanges, first coins: the surprising and slow monetisation of the French West Indies in the first half of the seventeenth century; 9. Of paper and metals. East African societies, colonialism and the materiality of money; Part III: Entanglements; 10. Carthaginians, Italiots and Greeks: colonial coin iconography in Sicily and southern Italy, 500–200 BCE; 11. Massalia’s different monetary impact: north and south; 12. Hybrid dirhams at Rus’ markets. Coins and colonisation along the Viking eastern trade routes in the tenth century CE; 13. Crusades, colonies and coins: strategies and subversion in the medieval Baltic Sea