Author: Sebastian Felten
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009116479
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
The Dutch Republic was an important hub in the early modern world-economy, a place where hundreds of monies were used alongside each other. Sebastian Felten explores regional, European and global circuits of exchange by analysing everyday practices in Dutch cities and villages in the period 1600-1850. He reveals how for peasants and craftsmen, stewards and churchmen, merchants and metallurgists, money was an everyday social technology that helped them to carve out a livelihood. With vivid examples of accounting and assaying practices, Felten offers a key to understanding the internal logic of early modern money. This book uses new archival evidence and an approach informed by the history of technology to show how plural currencies gave early modern users considerable agency. It explores how the move to uniform national currency limited this agency in the nineteenth century and thus helps us make sense of the new plurality of payments systems today.
Money in the Dutch Republic
Author: Sebastian Felten
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009116479
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
The Dutch Republic was an important hub in the early modern world-economy, a place where hundreds of monies were used alongside each other. Sebastian Felten explores regional, European and global circuits of exchange by analysing everyday practices in Dutch cities and villages in the period 1600-1850. He reveals how for peasants and craftsmen, stewards and churchmen, merchants and metallurgists, money was an everyday social technology that helped them to carve out a livelihood. With vivid examples of accounting and assaying practices, Felten offers a key to understanding the internal logic of early modern money. This book uses new archival evidence and an approach informed by the history of technology to show how plural currencies gave early modern users considerable agency. It explores how the move to uniform national currency limited this agency in the nineteenth century and thus helps us make sense of the new plurality of payments systems today.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009116479
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
The Dutch Republic was an important hub in the early modern world-economy, a place where hundreds of monies were used alongside each other. Sebastian Felten explores regional, European and global circuits of exchange by analysing everyday practices in Dutch cities and villages in the period 1600-1850. He reveals how for peasants and craftsmen, stewards and churchmen, merchants and metallurgists, money was an everyday social technology that helped them to carve out a livelihood. With vivid examples of accounting and assaying practices, Felten offers a key to understanding the internal logic of early modern money. This book uses new archival evidence and an approach informed by the history of technology to show how plural currencies gave early modern users considerable agency. It explores how the move to uniform national currency limited this agency in the nineteenth century and thus helps us make sense of the new plurality of payments systems today.
Dictionary Catalog
Author: American Numismatic Society. Library
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Category : Numismatics
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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Category : Numismatics
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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Placcaet ende ordonnantie van ... die Staten Generael der Vereenichde Nederlanden, soo opten cours van 't gelt, als opte politie ende discipline, betreffende d'exercitie vande munte, ende muntslach, midtsgaders 't stuck vanden wissel, ende wisselaers, scheyders, affineurs, gout ende silversmeden, juweliers, ende alle andere, in de Vereenichde Nederlanden
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Pages : 44
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Gender, Power and Identity in the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau
Author: Susan Broomhall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317129903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
How do gender and power relationships affect the expression of family, House and dynastic identities? The present study explores this question using a case study of the House of Orange-Nassau, whose extensive visual, material and archival sources from both male and female members enable the authors to trace their complex attempts to express, gain and maintain power: in texts, material culture, and spaces, as well as rituals, acts and practices. The book adopts several innovative approaches to the history of the Orange-Nassau family, and to familial and dynastic studies generally. Firstly, the authors analyse in detail a vast body of previously unexplored sources, including correspondence, artwork, architectural, horticultural and textual commissions, ceremonies, practices and individual actions that have, surprisingly, received little attention to date individually, and consider these as the collective practices of a key early modern dynastic family. They investigate new avenues about the meanings and practices of family and dynasty in the early modern period, extending current research that focuses on dominant men to ask how women and subordinate men understood 'family' and 'dynasty', in what respects such notions were shared among members, and how it might have been fractured and fashioned by individual experiences. Adopting a transnational approach to the Nassau family, the authors explore the family's self-presentation across a range of languages, cultures and historiographical traditions, situating their representation of themselves as an influential House within an international context and offering a new vision of power as a gendered concept.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317129903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
How do gender and power relationships affect the expression of family, House and dynastic identities? The present study explores this question using a case study of the House of Orange-Nassau, whose extensive visual, material and archival sources from both male and female members enable the authors to trace their complex attempts to express, gain and maintain power: in texts, material culture, and spaces, as well as rituals, acts and practices. The book adopts several innovative approaches to the history of the Orange-Nassau family, and to familial and dynastic studies generally. Firstly, the authors analyse in detail a vast body of previously unexplored sources, including correspondence, artwork, architectural, horticultural and textual commissions, ceremonies, practices and individual actions that have, surprisingly, received little attention to date individually, and consider these as the collective practices of a key early modern dynastic family. They investigate new avenues about the meanings and practices of family and dynasty in the early modern period, extending current research that focuses on dominant men to ask how women and subordinate men understood 'family' and 'dynasty', in what respects such notions were shared among members, and how it might have been fractured and fashioned by individual experiences. Adopting a transnational approach to the Nassau family, the authors explore the family's self-presentation across a range of languages, cultures and historiographical traditions, situating their representation of themselves as an influential House within an international context and offering a new vision of power as a gendered concept.
Placcaet ende ordonnantie van mijn heeren die Staten Generael der Vereenichde Nederlanden, soo opten cours van 't gelt, als opte politie ende discipline, betreffende d'exercitie vande munte, ende muntslagh: midtsgaders 'tstuck vanden wissel, ende wisselaers ...
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Languages : nl
Pages : 44
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Pages : 44
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A Financial History of the Netherlands
Author: Marjolein C. 't Hart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521581613
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Overview of the financial history of the Netherlands from the sixteenth century onwards.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521581613
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Overview of the financial history of the Netherlands from the sixteenth century onwards.
Placcaet ende ordonnantie van mijn heeren die Staten Generael der Vereenichde Nederlanden, soo opten cours van't gelt, als opte politie ende discipline, betreffende d'exercitie vande munte, ende muntslach, midtsgaders 'tstuck vanden wissel, ende wisselaers, scheyders, affineurs, gout ende silversmeden, juweliers, ende alle andere, in de Vereenichde Nederlanden
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Pages : 38
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Mining Language
Author: Allison Margaret Bigelow
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469654393
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Mineral wealth from the Americas underwrote and undergirded European colonization of the New World; American gold and silver enriched Spain, funded the slave trade, and spurred Spain’s northern European competitors to become Atlantic powers. Building upon works that have narrated this global history of American mining in economic and labor terms, Mining Language is the first book-length study of the technical and scientific vocabularies that miners developed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as they engaged with metallic materials. This language-centric focus enables Allison Bigelow to document the crucial intellectual contributions Indigenous and African miners made to the very engine of European colonialism. By carefully parsing the writings of well-known figures such as Cristóbal Colón and Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés and lesser-known writers such Álvaro Alonso Barba, a Spanish priest who spent most of his life in the Andes, Bigelow uncovers the ways in which Indigenous and African metallurgists aided or resisted imperial mining endeavors, shaped critical scientific practices, and offered imaginative visions of metalwork. Her creative linguistic and visual analyses of archival fragments, images, and texts in languages as diverse as Spanish and Quechua also allow her to reconstruct the processes that led to the silencing of these voices in European print culture.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469654393
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Mineral wealth from the Americas underwrote and undergirded European colonization of the New World; American gold and silver enriched Spain, funded the slave trade, and spurred Spain’s northern European competitors to become Atlantic powers. Building upon works that have narrated this global history of American mining in economic and labor terms, Mining Language is the first book-length study of the technical and scientific vocabularies that miners developed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as they engaged with metallic materials. This language-centric focus enables Allison Bigelow to document the crucial intellectual contributions Indigenous and African miners made to the very engine of European colonialism. By carefully parsing the writings of well-known figures such as Cristóbal Colón and Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés and lesser-known writers such Álvaro Alonso Barba, a Spanish priest who spent most of his life in the Andes, Bigelow uncovers the ways in which Indigenous and African metallurgists aided or resisted imperial mining endeavors, shaped critical scientific practices, and offered imaginative visions of metalwork. Her creative linguistic and visual analyses of archival fragments, images, and texts in languages as diverse as Spanish and Quechua also allow her to reconstruct the processes that led to the silencing of these voices in European print culture.
Natural Images in Economic Thought
Author: Philip Mirowski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521478847
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
This 1994 book was the first collection devoted to impact of natural sciences on content and form of economics in history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521478847
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
This 1994 book was the first collection devoted to impact of natural sciences on content and form of economics in history.
Gifts, Goods and Money
Author: Dirk Brandherm
Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
ISBN: 9781784918354
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The papers gathered in this volume explore the economic and social roles of exchange systems in past societies from a variety of different perspectives. Based on a broad range of individual case studies, the authors tackle problems surrounding the identification of (pre-monetary) currencies in the archaeological record. These concern the part played by weight measurement systems in their development, the changing role of objects as they shift between different spheres of exchange, e.g. from gifts to commodities, as well as wider issues regarding the role of exchange networks as agents of social and economic change. Among the specific questions the papers address is what happens when new objects of value are introduced into a system, or when existing objects go out of use, as well as how exchange systems react to events such as crises or the emergence of new polities and social constellations. One theme that unites most of the papers is the tension between what is introduced from the outside and changes that are driven by social transformations within a given group.
Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
ISBN: 9781784918354
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The papers gathered in this volume explore the economic and social roles of exchange systems in past societies from a variety of different perspectives. Based on a broad range of individual case studies, the authors tackle problems surrounding the identification of (pre-monetary) currencies in the archaeological record. These concern the part played by weight measurement systems in their development, the changing role of objects as they shift between different spheres of exchange, e.g. from gifts to commodities, as well as wider issues regarding the role of exchange networks as agents of social and economic change. Among the specific questions the papers address is what happens when new objects of value are introduced into a system, or when existing objects go out of use, as well as how exchange systems react to events such as crises or the emergence of new polities and social constellations. One theme that unites most of the papers is the tension between what is introduced from the outside and changes that are driven by social transformations within a given group.