Stuff and money in the time of the French Revolution /Rebecca L. Spang.

By:

Spang, Rebecca L, 1961- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780674736146

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

HG978 .S784 2015

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Contents:

The money of liberty -- Making money -- Liberty of money -- Civil wars in France -- The revolution that would not end -- Taking the Old Regime out of circulation -- Conclusion: Money and history.

Scope and content: "This book writes a new history of money. It uses one of the most infamous examples of monetary innovation, the assignats--a currency initially defined by French revolutionaries as circulating land--to demonstrate that money is as much a social and political mediator as it is an economic instrument. Following the assignats from creation to abandonment, the book focuses on the slippages that so quickly arose between policies and practice, between intentions and outcomes. Stuff and Money is also a new history of the French Revolution, one in which an ever-widening gap between enunciated ideals and the actual functioning of daily life drove political radicalization. Wed to the idea that liberty required both political freedom and economic de-regulation, revolutionary legislators extended free trade to include even money"--Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

"This book writes a new history of money. It uses one of the most infamous examples of monetary innovation, the assignats--a currency initially defined by French revolutionaries as circulating land--to demonstrate that money is as much a social and political mediator as it is an economic instrument. Following the assignats from creation to abandonment, the book focuses on the slippages that so quickly arose between policies and practice, between intentions and outcomes. Stuff and Money is also a new history of the French Revolution, one in which an ever-widening gap between enunciated ideals and the actual functioning of daily life drove political radicalization. Wed to the idea that liberty required both political freedom and economic de-regulation, revolutionary legislators extended free trade to include even money"--Provided by publisher.

The time of the debt -- The money of liberty -- Making money -- Liberty of money -- Civil wars in France -- The revolution that would not end -- Taking the Old Regime out of circulation -- Conclusion: Money and history.

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