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A Cultural History of Money Summary

A Cultural History of Money by Professor Bill Maurer (University of California, Irvine, USA)

Money is a matter of functions four: a medium, a measure, a standard, a store. But money is always a medium of communication too, whether about price or about political conviction and authority, fealty, desire, or disdain. In a work that spans 4,500 years, 54 experts chart across six volumes how money has made "the world go round" and capture money's complexities in both substance and form. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole and, to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The six volumes cover: 1 - Antiquity (2500 BCE-500 CE); 2 - Medieval Age (500-1400); 3 - Renaissance (1400-1680); 4 - Age of Enlightenment (1680-1820); 5 - Age of Empire (1820-1920); 6 - Modern Age (1920-present). Themes (and chapter titles) are: Money and its Technologies; Money and its Ideas; Money, Ritual, and Religion; Money and the Everyday; Money, Art, and Representation; Money and its Interpretation; Money and the Issues of the Age The total extent of the pack is approximately 1,680 pages. Each volume opens with a Series Preface, an Introduction, and Notes on Contributors and concludes with Notes, Bibliography, and an Index. The Cultural Histories Series A Cultural History of Money is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available as hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a tangible reference for their shelves or as part of a fully-searchable digital library. The digital product is available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access via www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com. Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available in print or digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com.

About Professor Bill Maurer (University of California, Irvine, USA)

Bill Maurer is Dean of the School of Social Sciences, University of California Irvine, USA

Table of Contents

Volume 1: A Cultural History of Money in Antiquity List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Preface, Bill Maurer, University of California Irvine, USA Introduction: Money Made the Ancient World Go Round, Stefan Krmnicek, University of Tubingen, Germany 1. Money and its Technologies: Production, Distribution, and Impact, Andrea Casoli, State Collection of Coins and Medals of the Canton of Ticino, Switzerland and Marc Philipp Wahl, Martin von Wagner Museum, University of Wurzburg, Germany 2. Money and its Ideas: State Control and Military Expenses, Francois de Callatay, Free University of Brussels, Belgium 3. Money, Ritual, and Religion: Noneconomic Qualities of Coinage, Stefan Krmnicek, University of Tubingen, Germany 4. Money and the Everyday: Multiple Moneys for Multiple Users, Stephane Martin, University of Poitiers, France 5. Money, Art, and Representation: A Look at the Roman World, Nathan T. Elkins, Baylor University, USA 6. Money and its Interpretation: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives, Alicia Jimenez, Duke University, USA 7. Money and the Issues of the Age: Power, Contact, and Identity, Clare Rowan, University of Warwick, UK Notes Bibliography Index Volume 2: A Cultural History of Money in the Medieval Age List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Preface, Bill Maurer, University of California Irvine, USA Introduction: Approaching Medieval Money, Rory Naismith, University of Cambridge, UK 1. Money and its Technologies: The Principles of Minting in the Middle Ages, Oliver Volckart, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK 2. Money and its Ideas: Payment Methods in the Middle Ages, Laurent Feller, University of Paris 1 - Pantheon-Sorbonne, France 3. Money, Ritual, and Religion: Economic Value between Theology and Administration, Giacomo Todeschini, Italy 4. Money and the Everyday: Whose Currency? Richard Kelleher, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK 5. Money, Art, and Representation: The Powerful and Pragmatic Faces of Medieval Coinage, Rebecca R. Darley, Birkbeck, University of London, UK 6. Money and its Interpretation: Attitudes to Money in the Societas Christiana, Svein H. Gullbekk, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Norway 7. Money and the Issues of the Age: The Plurality of Money, Rory Naismith, University of Cambridge, UK Notes Bibliography Index Volume 3: A Cultural History of Money in the Renaissance Notes on Contributors Series Preface, Bill Maurer, University of California Irvine, USA Introduction, Stephen Deng, Michigan State University, USA 1. Money and its Technologies: Mining, Metallurgy, Minting, and Non-Metallic Monetary Forms, Arturo Giraldez, University of the Pacific, Stockton, USA 2. Money and its Ideas: Justice, Sovereignty, and the Idea of Money as Commodity, Bradley D. Ryner, Arizona State University, USA 3. Money, Ritual, and Religion: Gods Stamp and the Problem of Usury, Stephen Deng, Michigan State University, USA 4. Money and the Everyday: Reputation, History, and Symbolism on the Eastern African Coast, Stephanie Wynne-Jones, University of York, UK 5. Money, Art, and Representation: Text, Image, and Message, Barrie Cook, British Museum, UK 6. Money and its Interpretation: Two Early Modern Transactions, David J. Baker, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA 7. Money and the Issues of the Age: Coinage, Sovereignty, and the Liquidity of Imagination, Brian Sheerin, St. Edward's University, Austin, USA Notes Bibliography Index Volume 4: A Cultural History of Money in the Age of Enlightenment List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Preface, Bill Maurer, University of California Irvine, USA Introduction: Strange New Music - The Monetary Composition Made by the Enlightenment Quartet, Christine Desan, Harvard Law School, USA 1. Money and its Technologies: Industrial Opposition and the Problem of Trust, Mara Caden, Massachusetts Historical Society, USA 2. Money and its Ideas: Enlightenment Debates about the Morality of Money, Carl Wennerlind, Columbia University, USA 3. Money, Ritual, and Religion: A Secularization Story, Dwight Codr, University of Connecticut, USA 4. Money and the Everyday: New Practices in the Enlightenment, Craig Muldrew, University of Cambridge, UK 5. Money, Art, and Representation: The Look and Sound of Money, Rebecca L. Spang, Indiana University, USA 6. Money and its Interpretation: Paper Money in Early America, Jennifer J. Baker, New York University, USA 7. Money and the Issues of the Age: Thinking about Money in the Eighteenth Century, Daniel Carey, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Notes Bibliography Index Volume 5: A Cultural History of Money in the Age of Empire 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 OMalley, George Mason University, USA 5. Money, Art, and Representation: twas 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 Sao Paulo, Brazil 7. Money and the Issues of the Age, Nigel Dodd, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Notes Bibliography Index Volume 6: A Cultural History of Money in the Modern Age List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Preface, Bill Maurer, University of California Irvine, USA Introduction: Money - Cultural, Historical, Modern, Taylor C. Nelms, Filene Research Institute, USA and David Pedersen, University of California, San Diego, USA 1. Money and its Technologies: Making Money Move in the Modern Era, Lana Swartz, University of Virginia, USA and David L. Stearns, University of Washington, USA 2. Money and its Ideas: Between Technocracy and Democracy, Michael Beggs, University of Sydney, Australia 3. Money, Ritual, and Religion: The Horror of It (the Prosperity Gospel and the Myth of Deterritorialization), Jon Bialecki, University of Edinburgh, UK 4. Money and the Everyday: Instability and Inventiveness in the Modern Age, Taylor C. Nelms, Filene Research Institute, USA and Jane I. Guyer, Johns Hopkins University, USA 5. Money, Art, and Representation: Six Artists, Two Crises (1973, 2008), Max Haiven, Lakehead University, Canada 6. Money and its Interpretation: The Future of Money in Speculative Fiction, Sherryl Vint, University of California, Riverside, USA 7. Money and the Issues of the Age: The Nature of Money and Post-Crisis Proposals for Reform, Yeva Nersisyan, Franklin and Marshall College, USA and L. Randall Wray, Bard College, USA Notes Bibliography Index

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A Cultural History of Money by Professor Bill Maurer (University of California, Irvine, USA)
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