Author : Glyn Davies
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 1069 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1783162767
An account of the central importance of money in the ordinary business of the life of different people throughout the ages from ancient times to the present day. It includes the Barings crisis and the report by the Bank of England on Barings Bank; information on the state of Japanese banking; and, the changes in the financial scene in the US.
Author : Frank L. Holt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 35,8 MB
Release : 2021
Category : ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES
ISBN : 019751765X
"Money may seem hopelessly mundane and culturally meaningless, but it has dominated--and documented--world history since the time of the ancient Greeks. This heavily illustrated book provides a spirited account of the first coinages and their living descendants in our pockets and purses. It explains how people from Jesus to The Beatles have used numismatics to explore the social, political, economic, and religious history of the world"--
Author : Peter Watson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 17,54 MB
Release : 2019-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1546297006
There are many books that discuss the coins from specific periods of Egyptian history, but there are none that consider the coins from the whole of that history. This work aims to provide such an account, covering the currency from ancient times through the Ptolemaic, Roman, Byzantine, Arabic, and Ottoman periods to modern times. An important feature of the work is the illustration of a selection of about 150 coins and banknotes that represent the major types throughout that history. Adjunct to this selection of these illustrations is a “key” that provides further numismatic detail about each of the coins in it. A difficulty with Egyptian coinage is that it includes inscriptions in many languages. Some notes in the key to the coins and in the appendices are provided to give a little help in this. In addition to providing a chronological account of the currency, the coins and notes are related to aspects of the daily lives of the people of each period and also to some aspects of the development of the state, particularly its architecture.
Author : Sir John Lubbock
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 36,93 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Coins
ISBN :
Author : Jack Weatherford
Publisher : Crown Currency
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,75 MB
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0307556743
“If you’re interested in the revolutionary transformation of the meaning and use of money, this is the book to read!”—Charles R. Schwab Cultural anthropologist Jack Weatherford traces our relationship with money, from primitive man’s cowrie shells to the electronic cash card, from the markets of Timbuktu to the New York Stock Exchange. The History of Money explores how money and the myriad forms of exchange have affected humanity, and how they will continue to shape all aspects of our lives—economic, political, and personal. “A fascinating book about the force that makes the world go round—the dollars, pounds, francs, marks, bahts, ringits, kwansas, levs, biplwelles, yuans, quetzales, pa’angas, ngultrums, ouguiyas, and other 200-odd brand names that collectively make up the mysterious thing we call money.”—Los Angeles Times
Author : Sumner Sumner
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 24,35 MB
Release : 2007
Category :
ISBN : 1610160746
Author : Lien-sheng Yang
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 33,5 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780674434738
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 16,31 MB
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9004383093
Reading Medieval Sources is an exciting new series which leads scholars and students into some of the most challenging and rewarding sources from the European Middle Ages, and introduces the most important approaches to understanding them. Written by an international team of twelve leading scholars, this volume Money and Coinage in the Middle Ages presents a set of fresh and insightful perspectives that demonstrate the rich potential of this source material to all scholars of medieval history and culture. It includes coverage of major developments in monetary history, set into their economic and political context, as well as innovative and interdisciplinary perspectives that address money and coinage in relation to archaeology, anthropology and medieval literature. Contributors are Nanouschka Myrberg Burström, Elizabeth Edwards, Gaspar Feliu, Anna Gannon, Richard Kelleher, Bill Maurer, Nick Mayhew, Rory Naismith, Philipp Robinson Rössner, Alessia Rovelli, Lucia Travaini, and Andrew Woods.
Author : David Schaps
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 11,20 MB
Release : 2015-09-02
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0472036408
Coinage appeared at a moment when it fulfilled an essential need in Greek society and brought with it rationalization and social leveling in some respects, while simultaneously producing new illusions, paradoxes, and new elites. In a book that will encourage scholarly discussion for some time, David M. Schaps addresses a range of important coinage topics, among them money, exchange, and economic organization in the Near East and in Greece before the introduction of coinage; the invention of coinage and the reasons for its adoption; and the developing use of money to make more money.
Author : John Sir Lubbock, 1834-1913
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 11,58 MB
Release : 2016-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781372626999
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