Author: Pierre Vilar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
For much of human history, the motive force behind war, conquest, social conflict and world exploration has been the drive to acquire gold. From the ancient world of Croesus to the wealthy dynasties of Renaissance Italy, from the earliest European explorations into Africa, America, and Asia to the gold rushes of the nineteenth century and the banking crises that lay beyond them, Pierre Vilar depicts the awesome power of avarice to structure the world in which we live. The insidious power of gold and money is the subject of this enlightening and entertaining history. The age of exploration brought an influx of treasure into Western Europe, prompting disputes between theologians and early economists over the causes of inflation in the sixteenth century. In time, American silver distorted metropolitan Spanish society beyond recognition. Vilar goes on to examine the roots of the modern banking and financial systems in institutions founded in Holland, England and France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. And in the nineteenth century, the gold rushes of Australia, California and South Africa generated new modifications in the international monetary system. Vilar concludes the story of these developments with a discussion of the crisis of the 1920s that, in the wake of the world credit crash of 2008, is more pertinent than ever. A History of Gold and Money provides a unique work of synthesis on the role of money in modern economic history.
A History of Gold and Money, 1450 to 1920
Author: Pierre Vilar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
For much of human history, the motive force behind war, conquest, social conflict and world exploration has been the drive to acquire gold. From the ancient world of Croesus to the wealthy dynasties of Renaissance Italy, from the earliest European explorations into Africa, America, and Asia to the gold rushes of the nineteenth century and the banking crises that lay beyond them, Pierre Vilar depicts the awesome power of avarice to structure the world in which we live. The insidious power of gold and money is the subject of this enlightening and entertaining history. The age of exploration brought an influx of treasure into Western Europe, prompting disputes between theologians and early economists over the causes of inflation in the sixteenth century. In time, American silver distorted metropolitan Spanish society beyond recognition. Vilar goes on to examine the roots of the modern banking and financial systems in institutions founded in Holland, England and France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. And in the nineteenth century, the gold rushes of Australia, California and South Africa generated new modifications in the international monetary system. Vilar concludes the story of these developments with a discussion of the crisis of the 1920s that, in the wake of the world credit crash of 2008, is more pertinent than ever. A History of Gold and Money provides a unique work of synthesis on the role of money in modern economic history.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
For much of human history, the motive force behind war, conquest, social conflict and world exploration has been the drive to acquire gold. From the ancient world of Croesus to the wealthy dynasties of Renaissance Italy, from the earliest European explorations into Africa, America, and Asia to the gold rushes of the nineteenth century and the banking crises that lay beyond them, Pierre Vilar depicts the awesome power of avarice to structure the world in which we live. The insidious power of gold and money is the subject of this enlightening and entertaining history. The age of exploration brought an influx of treasure into Western Europe, prompting disputes between theologians and early economists over the causes of inflation in the sixteenth century. In time, American silver distorted metropolitan Spanish society beyond recognition. Vilar goes on to examine the roots of the modern banking and financial systems in institutions founded in Holland, England and France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. And in the nineteenth century, the gold rushes of Australia, California and South Africa generated new modifications in the international monetary system. Vilar concludes the story of these developments with a discussion of the crisis of the 1920s that, in the wake of the world credit crash of 2008, is more pertinent than ever. A History of Gold and Money provides a unique work of synthesis on the role of money in modern economic history.
A History of Gold and Money, 1450-1920
Author: Pierre Vilar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Monetary History of Gold
Author: Mark Duckenfield
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315476118
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
This title presents a collection of documents relating to the monetary history of gold from the 17th century up to the present, covering specifically the rise of the gold standard, its heyday, and the period following.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315476118
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
This title presents a collection of documents relating to the monetary history of gold from the 17th century up to the present, covering specifically the rise of the gold standard, its heyday, and the period following.
Gold and the Gold Standard
Author: Edwin Walter Kemmerer
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 1610164423
Category : Gold
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
"Selected bibliography" at end of each chapter.
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 1610164423
Category : Gold
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
"Selected bibliography" at end of each chapter.
A History of Currency in the United States
Author: Alonzo Barton Hepburn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coinage
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coinage
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The Monetary History of Gold
Author: Mark Duckenfield
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781315476131
Category : Gold
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781315476131
Category : Gold
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Money that Changed the World
Author: Svein H. Gullbekk
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788299945301
Category : Gold coins
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788299945301
Category : Gold coins
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The History of Money in America
Author: Alexander Del Mar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Money
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Money
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The Gold Standard
Author: Brooks Adams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Currency question
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Currency question
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Two Sides to the Coin
Author: Adam Wasserman
Publisher: Adam Wasserman
ISBN: 1449555381
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Traces the history of gold throughout the world from antiquity to the early twenty-first century, describing its value to humanity, and discussing its usage in art, jewelry, palaces, temples, and tombs, along with the role it has played in historic events.
Publisher: Adam Wasserman
ISBN: 1449555381
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Traces the history of gold throughout the world from antiquity to the early twenty-first century, describing its value to humanity, and discussing its usage in art, jewelry, palaces, temples, and tombs, along with the role it has played in historic events.