A Cultural History of Money in the Age of Empire -

A Cultural History of Money in the Age of Empire

Buch | Softcover
208 Seiten
2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-36579-7 (ISBN)
32,40 inkl. MwSt
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.

Federico Neiburg is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Museu Nacional), Brazil. Nigel Dodd was Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Series Preface, Bill Maurer, University of California Irvine, USA
Introduction: Monetary Landscapes of the Nineteenth-Century, Federico Neiburg, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Nigel Dodd, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
1. Money and its Technologies: Inventing the Future through Money - Images of Monetization in Nineteenth Century American Patents, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, University of California ,San Diego, USA
2. Money and its Ideas: Colonial Currencies, Money Illusions, Gopalan Balachandran, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
3. Money, Ritual, and Religion: Reason, Race, and the Re-enchantment of the World, Bill Maurer, University of California Irvine, USA
4. Money and the Everyday: Paper Money, Community, and Nationalism in the Antebellum US, Michael O’Malley, George Mason University, USA
5. Money, Art, and Representation: ‘t’was only a balloon’ - Seeing and Satire in the Cultural History of Money, Nicky Marsh, University of Southampton, UK
6. Money and its Interpretation: The Century of Mobility and Acceleration and its Money, Leopoldo Waizbort, University of São Paulo, Brazil
7. Money and the Issues of the Age, Nigel Dodd, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie The Cultural Histories Series
Zusatzinfo 24 bw illus
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 169 x 244 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Freizeit / Hobby Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-350-36579-3 / 1350365793
ISBN-13 978-1-350-36579-7 / 9781350365797
Zustand Neuware
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