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Taylor & Francis Money in the Pre-Industrial World Bullion Debasements and Coin Substitutes 2012 Edition by John H Munro
The papers in this edited volume discuss key elements of monetarism, including coin denominations, the role of bullion and case studies of substitute moneys. Table of contents :- Introduction - John H Munro 1 The Technology and Economics of Coinage Debasements in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: with Special Reference to the Low Countries and England - John H Munro 2 From Aurelian to Diocletian: Financing Imperial Recovery by Coinage Debasements and Fiduciary Currencies - Kenneth W Harl 3 The Making of a Gold Standard: The Ducat and its Offspring, 1284-2001 - Alan Stahl 4 Debasement of the Coinage and its Effects on Exchange Rates and the Economy: in England in the 1540s, and in the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands in the 1480s - Peter Spufford 5 The Amsterdam Wisselbank's Innovations in the Monetary Sphere: The Role of 'Bank Money' - Herman Van der Wee 6 Silver in England, 1600-1800: Coinage Outputs and Bullion Exports from the Records of the London Tower Mint and the London Company of Goldsmiths - Nicholas J Mayhew 7 The Burdens of Tradition: Debasements, Coinage Circulation and Mercantilist Public Policy Debates in Seventeenth-Century Aragon - Jose Antonio Mateos Royo 8 Money or Export Commodity for Asia? American Silver in the Markets of Mexico, Castile and Amsterdam from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century - Renate Pieper 9 Cacao Beans in Colonial Mexico: Small Change in a Global Economy - Arturo Giraldez 10 Precious Metals, Debasements and Cowrie Shells in the Medieval Indian Monetary Systems, c.1200-1575 - John S Deyell