The Making of National Money : : Territorial Currencies in Historical Perspective / / Eric Helleiner.

Why should each country have its own exclusive currency? Eric Helleiner offers a fascinating and unique perspective on this question in his accessible history of the origins of national money. Our contemporary understandings of national currency are, Helleiner shows, surprisingly recent. Based on st...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2002
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 20 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. The Birth of Territorial Currencies in the Nineteenth Century
  • Part 2. The Contestation and Spread of Territorial Currencies
  • References
  • Index