Author: Astor LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
Catalogue of the Astor Library (continuation)
Author: Astor LibraryThe Numismatic Circular and Catalogue of Coins, Tokens, Commemorative & War Medals, Books & Cabinets
Author: Spink & SonNouveau Petit Larousse Illustre
Author: Pierre Athanase LaroussePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French
Languages : en
Pages : 1780
Book Description
Documents Relatifs À la Monnaie, Au Change Et Aux Finances Du Canada Sous Le Régime Français
Author: Public Archives of Canada. Board of Historical PublicationsPublisher: F.A. Acland
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Catalogue of the Astor Library
Author: Astor LibrarySpink & Son's Monthly Numismatic Circular
Author: Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts, Relating to Antiquity
Author: Publisher and Bookseller
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ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1340
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France
Author: Jotham ParsonsPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801454972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Coinage and currency—abstract and socially created units of value and power—were basic to early modern society. By controlling money, the people sought to understand and control their complex, expanding, and interdependent world. In Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France, Jotham Parsons investigates the creation and circulation of currency in France. The royal Cour des Monnaies centralized monetary administration, expanding its role in the emerging modern state during the sixteenth century and assuming new powers as an often controversial repository of theoretical and administrative expertise.The Cour des Monnaies, Parsons shows, played an important role in developing the contemporary understanding of money, as a source of both danger and opportunity at the center of economic and political life. More practically, the Monnaies led generally successful responses to the endemic inflation of the era and the monetary chaos of a period of civil war. Its work investigating and prosecuting counterfeiters shone light into a picaresque world of those who used the abstract and artificial nature of money for their own ends. Parsons's broad, multidimensional portrait of money in early modern France also encompasses the literature of the age, in which money's arbitrary and dangerous power was a major theme.
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