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1 online resource (317 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Dates -- Introduction -- What Is Money? Defining the Subject Matter -- Money and the Nation in Three Kingdoms -- Money and History -- Road Map -- 1. 'I will make them one nation': 1603-1660 -- Money in England, Scotland, and Ireland before the Regal Union -- Uniting the Nations: Regal, Political and Monetary Unions -- The Fracturing and Remaking of the Monetary Order -- 2. The Decline of the Old Monetary Order: 1660-1689 |
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1660: Restoring Difference -- Crises, Credit, and the Origins of Modern Money -- Ireland: Managing Monetary Catastrophe -- Scotland: the Uses and Abuses of Monetary Autonomy -- The Price of Revolution: the Monetary Consequences of 1689 -- 3. Money and Revolution-the Case of England: 1690-1697 -- Monetary Revolution I: the Case for the Concept -- Monetary Revolution II: Banks -- The Coinage Crisis: Judicial Terror and Popular Resistance -- Monetary Revolution III: Coins -- 4. Revolution, Union, and Divergence-from Scotland to North Britain: 1689-1772 |
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Storms from the South: Scotland's Money and England's Revolution -- A Failed Revolution? Bank of Scotland and the Company of Scotland -- Exporting Revolution? The Union of the Coins -- Converging Diversity: Scottish and British Money after the Union -- 5. Engines of State, Emblems of Nation, Tokens of Trust: 1695-1796 -- Monetary Standards, New and Non-Existent -- Struggles over Credit I: the South Sea Bubble -- Struggles over Credit II: Banking in Ireland 1721-82 -- Ireland: Struggles over Coin -- Ireland: towards a Sterling Standard -- Credit and Counterfeits: Managing the Scarcity of Money |
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6. The Only True, Intelligible Standard: 1793-1822 -- The Suspension of Cash Payments -- Paper against Gold: the Push for Resumption -- The People's Money -- The Price of Gold -- 7. The Limits of Perfection: 1825-1914 -- Uniformity and Its Discontents: the 1825 Crisis and Its Aftermath -- Uniformity Bungled: the Assimilation of the Irish Coinage -- Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy: the Unequal Struggle over Gold -- No Failure Like Success: the Banking Acts of 1844 and 1845 -- The Golden Age -- 8. Things Fall Apart: 1914-1931 -- The First World War: Remaking the Monetary Order |
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'Back to Sanity': the Price of Orthodoxy -- 'A Golden Gallipoli': the Return to Gold and Its Critics -- Union (Partially) Undone: Creating an Irish Currency -- 1931: Power, Patriotism, and the Discourse of Catastrophe -- Epilogue: The Burdens and Uses of the Past -- Memory, History, and the 'Decline' of Sterling -- Money, Sovereignty, and Identity in Ireland and the UK -- History and Forgetting in the Scottish Currency Debate -- Final Thoughts: the Global Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Forging Nations considers the relationships between money, power, and nationality in England, Scotland, and Ireland from the Union of the Crowns in 1603 to the present day. Blaazer examines how struggles over monetary power have continued to shape arguments and attitudes in recent debates over the Euro, Scottish independence, and 'austerity' |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 03, 2023) |
| Subject |
Money -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History
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Money -- Political aspects -- Ireland -- History
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Currency question -- Great Britain -- History
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Currency question -- Ireland -- History
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Nationalism -- Great Britain -- History
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Nationalism -- Ireland -- History
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Power (Social sciences) -- Great Britain -- History
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Power (Social sciences) -- Ireland -- History
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Currency question
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Money -- Political aspects
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Nationalism
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Power (Social sciences)
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Economics.
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Finance and Accounting.
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Great Britain
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Ireland
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0192887033 |
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019198177X |
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9780191981777 |
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9780192887030 |
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