Money in the German-speaking Lands / / ed. by Jared Poley, Mary Lindemann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Briesacher, Erika L.,; Dalinghaus, Ursula M.,; Dillinger, Johannes,; Frey Jr., Dennis,; Goodstein, Elizabeth S.,; Grünbacher, Armin,; Hatje, Frank,; Hughes, Michael L.,; Keller, Vera,; Larkin, Kraig,; Lindemann, Mary,; Marschke, Benjamin,; Poley, Jared,; Rosenhaft, Eve,; Sauter, Michael J.,; Schnurr, Jan Carsten,; Spalding, Almut,; Sperber, Jonathan,; Swett, Pamela E.,; Wakefield, Andre,
• HerausgeberIn: Lindemann, Mary,; Poley, Jared,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association ; 17
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)

Money is more than just a medium of financial exchange: across time and place, it has performed all sorts of cultural, political, and social functions. This volume traces money in German-speaking Europe from the late Renaissance until the close of the twentieth century, exploring how people have used it and endowed it with multiple meanings. The fascinating studies gathered here collectively demonstrate money’s vast symbolic and practical significance, from its place in debates about religion and the natural world to its central role in statecraft and the formation of national identity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- TABLES AND FIGURES -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE Money from the Spirit World: Treasure Spirits, Geldmännchen, Drache -- CHAPTER TWO Perfecting the State Alchemy and Oeconomy as Academic Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern German-Speaking Lands -- CHAPTER THREE The Money Tree Living in the Shadow of a Patrician Family in Hamburg -- CHAPTER FOUR Silver Thaler and Ur-Cameralists -- CHAPTER FIVE “All That Glitters Is Not Gold, But . . .” German Responses to the Financial Bubbles of 1720 -- CHAPTER SIX A Conspicuous Lack of Consumption: Money, Luxury, and Fashion in King Frederick William I’s Prussia (c. 1713–40) -- CHAPTER SEVEN “Alles Geld gehet immer auf” Money in an Emerging Consumer and Cash Economy, Göppingen (1735–1860) -- CHAPTER EIGHT Status, Friendship, and Money in Hamburg around 1800 Debit and Credit in the Diaries of Ferdinand Beneke (1774–1848) -- CHAPTER NINE Luxury and the Nineteenth- Century Württemberg Pietists -- CHAPTER TEN Marx on Money -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Modernism, Relativism, and the Philosophy of Money -- CHAPTER TWELVE A Narrative in Notgeld: Collecting, Emergency Money, and National Identity in Weimar Germany -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Predatory Speculators, Honest Creditors: Money as Root of Evil or Proof of Virtue in Weimar Germany -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Mobilizing Citizens and Their Savings: Germany’s Public Savings Banks, 1933–39 -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN “One Would Not Get Far Without Cigarettes” The Cigarette Economy in Occupied Germany, 1945–48 -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN When the Deutsch Mark Was in Short Supply: Reconstruction Finance between Currency Reform and “Economic Miracle” -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Between Memorialization and Monetary Revaluation: The 1990 Currency Union as a Site of Post-Unification Memory Work -- AFTERWORD Simmel’s Berlin and Money as Social Consensus -- INDEX