Title: The Social life of money in the English past
Description: "In an age when authoritative definitions of currency were in flux and small change was scarce, money enjoyed a rich and complex social life. Deborah Valenze shows how money became involved in relations between people in ways that moved beyond what we understand as its purely economic functions. This highly original investigation covers the formative period of commercial and financial development in England between 1630 and 1800. In a series of interwoven essays, Valenze examines religious prohibitions related to avarice, early theories of political economy, an experimental workhouse banning money, and exchange practices of the Atlantic economy."--Jacket.
Subjects: Economic conditions, History, Money, Social aspects of Money, Social conditions, England, social life and customs, Social aspects
Places: England
Time periods: 17th century, 18th century