New World gold
Subtitle: cultural anxiety and monetary disorder in early modern Spain
By: Elvira Vilches.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780226856186
Subjects: Economics -- Spain -- History -- 16th century; Economics -- Spain -- History -- 17th century; Gold -- Spain -- History -- 16th century; Gold -- Spain -- History -- 17th century; Credit -- Spain -- History -- 16th century; Credit -- Spain -- History -- 17th century; Spain -- Economic conditions -- 16th century; Spain -- Economic conditions -- 17th century
Description: Here, the author examines economic treatises, stories of travel and conquest, moralist writings, fiction, poetry, and drama to reveal that New World gold ultimately became a problematic source of power that destabilized Spain's sense of trust, truth, and worth.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : money, credit, and value; title: New world gold; title: Selling the Indies : Columbus and the economy of the marvelous; title: Gold : a problematic standard; title: The new world of money; title: Writing about debt; title: The Indies, value, and wealth; title: Conclusion : a remote and exotic geography.