| Description |
1 online resource (207 pages) : map |
| Series |
New anthropologies of Europe |
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New anthropologies of Europe.
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| Contents |
Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Imagining Utopia, Constructing Øresund: From the Nation-State to the Region; The Arts of ''Scientific'' Money: Monetary Policy as Moral Policy; Receipts and Deceits: Currency Regulation, Black Markets, and Borders; The Mark of Money: Regulating the Flow of Subjects; Indebted Communities: Exiling Economic Hierarchy to the Margins; Conclusion: Scientific Money for Scientific States; Notes; References; Index |
| Summary |
Gustav Peebles takes an anthropological look at two seemingly separate developments in Europe at the turn of the millennium: the rollout of the euro and the building of new transnational regions such as the Oresund Region, envisioned as a melding of Copenhagen, Denmark, with MalmÃ, Sweden. Peebles argues that the drive to create such transnational spaces is inseparable from the drive to create a pan-national currency. He studies the practices and rhetoric surrounding the national currencies of Denmark an |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Euro.
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Money.
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International economic relations.
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Euro.
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International economic integration.
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International economic relations.
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Money.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Economic integration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045678
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| Subject |
Europe.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780253001412 |
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0253001412 |
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0253223202 |
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9780253223203 |
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0253356385 |
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9780253356383 |
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