A cultural history of money
"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 volu...
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| Format: | Livre papier |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic
2019.
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| Collection: | The cultural histories series
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| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Contient: | • Cultural History of Money in Antiquity, edited by Stefan Krmnicek • Cultural History of Money in the Medieval Age, edited by Rory Naismith • Cultural History of Money in the Renaissance, edited by Stephen Deng • Cultural History of Money in the Age of Enlightenment, edited by Christine Desan • Cultural History of Money in the Age of Empire, edited by Federico Neiburg and Nigel Dodd • Cultural History of Money in the Modern Age, edited by Taylor C. Nelms and David Pedersen |
| Résumé: | "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 AgeThe 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." |
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| Description matérielle: | 6 vol. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliographie: | Références bibliographiques. Index |
| ISBN: | 9781474237390 (édition complète) 9781474237024 (vol.1) 9781474237109 (vol.2) 9781474237093 (vol.3) 9781474237079 (vol 4) 9781474237406 (vol.5) 9781474237116 (vol.6) 1474237398 1474237029 147423710X 1474237096 147423707X 1474237401 1474237118 |