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

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 use...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association ; 17
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.)
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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