Money is more than just a medium of financial exchange: across time and place, it has performed all sorts of cultural, political, and social functions. This volume traces money in German-speaking Europe from the late Renaissance until the close of the twentieth century, exploring how people have used it and endowed it with multiple meanings. The fascinating studies gathered here collectively demonstrate money's vast symbolic and practical significance, from its place in debates about religion and the natural world to its central role in statecraft and the formation of national identity.
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Money in the German-speaking Lands
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Introduction
- 1. Money from the Spirit World
- 2. Perfecting the State
- 3. The Money Tree
- 4. Silver Thaler and Ur-Cameralists
- 5. “All That Glitters Is Not Gold, But . . .”
- 6. A Conspicuous Lack of Consumption
- 7. “Alles Geld gehet immer auf”
- 8. Status, Friendship, and Money in Hamburg around 1800
- 9. Luxury and the Nineteenth-Century Württemberg Pietists
- 10. Marx on Money
- 11. Modernism, Relativism, and the Philosophy of Money
- 12. A Narrative in Notgeld
- 13. Predatory Speculators, Honest Creditors
- 14. Mobilizing Citizens and Their Savings
- 15. “One Would Not Get Far Without Cigarettes”
- 16. When the Deutsch Mark Was in Short Supply
- 17. Between Memorialization and Monetary Revaluation
- Afterword
- Index
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