Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution / / Rebecca L. Spang.
Rebecca L. Spang, who revolutionized our understanding of the restaurant, has written a new history of money. It uses one of the most infamous examples of monetary innovation, the assignats-a currency initially defined by French revolutionaries as "circulating land"-to demonstrate that mon...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (348 p.) :; 26 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: Money and Stuff
- 1. The Time of the Debt
- 2. The Money of Liberty
- 3. Making Money
- 4. Liberty of Money
- 5. Civil Wars in France
- 6. The Revolution That Would Not End
- 7. Taking the Old Regime out of Circulation
- Conclusion: Money and History
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index