| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Early Modern Money Viewed from the Inside -- The Book's Narrative -- 1 Money as Social Technology -- Objects, People, and Meaning -- Techniques of Sustenance -- 2 Grain Money in a Farming Community -- Grain Gains -- Volume Measures and Bodily Mathematics -- Cereal Accounting -- 3 Ink Money in a Princely Estate -- Exploitation -- Conversion -- Ink Money -- Other Stewards in the Region -- A Link to Taxation? |
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4 Metallurgy and the Making of Intrinsic Value -- Mines, Markets, Mints -- Assays with Authority -- Testing Procedures -- Conclusion -- 5 Mercantile Practice and Everyday Use -- Domestic Taxonomies: A Preacher's Home -- Metric Cultures: A Country Merchant -- Currency Spaces: A Church Run by Merchants -- Conclusion -- 6 Patriotic Economics and the Making of a National Currency -- The Making of a National Economy -- The Making of a National Currency -- How Did Monetary Practice Change? -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Archival Sources -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
"Global trade and colonial extraction drew the early modern world closer together, carving out circuits in which silver and gold crossed oceans and continents.1 What forms did these metals take, and whose practices constituted these forms? The 3,500 coins in the collection of the Dutch lawyer and numismatist Pieter Verkade offers some answers to this question.2 When it was sold in 1849, the public could view it in the Huis met de Hoofden in Amsterdam. Just as the house, which once belonged to the metal trading families De Geer and Grill, the collection was a relic of the time when one axis of world trade had run through the marshlands of Holland before it tilted further to the English Southwest. As visitors pulled out the drawers of Verkade's finely carved mahogany cabinets, a wide world unfurled that was tightly interwoven by coined metal"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 21, 2022) |
| Subject |
Money -- Netherlands -- History
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Coinage -- Netherlands -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History.
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Coinage
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Money
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Netherlands
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021045488 |
| ISBN |
9781009106375 |
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1009106376 |
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