Money in the Pre-Industrial World: Bullion, Debasements and Coin Substitutes

Money in the Pre-Industrial World

Bullion, Debasements and Coin Substitutes

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Edited by John H. Munro

Publisher:: Pickering & Chatto
Online publication date:: December 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781848932319

Subjects:: History, Economic History

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The papers in this edited volume discuss key historical elements of ‘monetarism’, including coins and moneys of account, the role of bullion and case studies of substitute moneys. The debasement of coinage is fundamental to any study of this kind and is explored within ancient, medieval and early modern contexts across Europe, Asia and the Americas. This comparative approach demonstrates that an understanding of money is fundamental for an understanding of economics and economic history.

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Bullion, Debasements and Coin Substitutes

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

CONTENTS
pp vii-viii

List of Figures and Tables
pp ix-x

List of Contributors
pp xi-xii

Introduction
pp 1-14

1 - The Technology and Economics of Coinage Debasements in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: with Special Reference to the Low Countries and England
pp 15-32

2 - From Aurelian to Diocletian: Financing Imperial Recovery by Coinage Debasements and Fiduciary Currencies
pp 33-44

3 - The Making of a Gold Standard: The Ducat and its Offspring, 1284–2001
pp 45-62

4 - Debasement of the Coinage and its Effects on Exchange Rates and the Economy: in England in the 1540s, and in the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands in the 1480s
pp 63-86

5 - The Amsterdam Wisselbank's Innovations in the Monetary Sphere: The Role of ‘Bank Money’
pp 87-96

6 - Silver in England 1600–1800: Coinage Outputs and Bullion Exports from the Records of the London Tower Mint and the London Company of Goldsmiths
pp 97-110

7 - The Burdens of Tradition: Debasements, Coinage Circulation and Mercantilist Public Policy Debates in Seventeenth-Century Aragon
pp 111-128

8 - Money or Export Commodity for Asia? American Silver in the Markets of Mexico, Castile and Amsterdam from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century
pp 129-146

9 - Cacao Beans in Colonial México: Small Change in a Global Economy
pp 147-162

10 - Precious Metals, Debasements and Cowrie Shells in the Medieval Indian Monetary Systems, c. 1200–1575
pp 163-182

Notes
pp 183-216

Index
pp 217-225

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