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- catalog abstract ""Sterling: The History of a Currency is both an account of the global impact of currency throughout the second millennium and primer in financial history and theory." "Mayhew traces the path of sterling from its genesis around 1080, during the rule of William the Conqueror, through latter-day struggles to hold its own amidst the global retreat from precious metals standards and the still-developing Euro. Tales of laborers and merchants interweave with those of knights and kings to reveal the social fabric of European society in 1500. Passages from Adam Smith's 1776 classic The Wealth of Nations outline early but fundamental principles of banking. The dramatic increase in the early nineteenth-century supply of sterling, accompanied by its equally dramatic fall in value, is explored, and the evolution of money from silver and gold through paper, plastic, and electronic impulses is contrasted with social movements that have changed our need for, and relationship with, money." "Whether you are a student of finance, history, psychology, or sociology, Sterling will leave you with a new appreciation for the central role a currency plays in the development of a nation."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11647834.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Sterling: The History of a Currency is both an account of the global impact of currency throughout the second millennium and primer in financial history and theory." "Mayhew traces the path of sterling from its genesis around 1080, during the rule of William the Conqueror, through latter-day struggles to hold its own amidst the global retreat from precious metals standards and the still-developing Euro. Tales of laborers and merchants interweave with those of knights and kings to reveal the social fabric of European society in 1500. Passages from Adam Smith's 1776 classic The Wealth of Nations outline early but fundamental principles of banking. The dramatic increase in the early nineteenth-century supply of sterling, accompanied by its equally dramatic fall in value, is explored, and the evolution of money from silver and gold through paper, plastic, and electronic impulses is contrasted with social movements that have changed our need for, and relationship with, money." "Whether you are a student of finance, history, psychology, or sociology, Sterling will leave you with a new appreciation for the central role a currency plays in the development of a nation."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1 English Money from the Domesday Book to Henry VIII 1 -- 2 Inflation: 1515 to 1650 39 -- 3 Goldsmiths, Locke, and the Birth of the Bank 77 -- 4 Age of Daniel Defoe and Adam Smith 103 -- 5 From Pitt to Peel: 1797 to 1847 132 -- 6 Golden Age of Sterling: 1851 to 1914 169 -- 7 From Sarajevo to Bretton Woods: 1914 to 1944 198 -- 8 Sterling Since the War 231.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-278) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 290 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Sterling, the history of a currency.".
- catalog identifier "0471385352 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Sterling, the history of a currency.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Wiley,".
- catalog relation "Sterling, the history of a currency.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "332.4/941 21; aa05 12-02-99".
- catalog subject "HG935 .M39 2000".
- catalog subject "Money Great Britain History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1 English Money from the Domesday Book to Henry VIII 1 -- 2 Inflation: 1515 to 1650 39 -- 3 Goldsmiths, Locke, and the Birth of the Bank 77 -- 4 Age of Daniel Defoe and Adam Smith 103 -- 5 From Pitt to Peel: 1797 to 1847 132 -- 6 Golden Age of Sterling: 1851 to 1914 169 -- 7 From Sarajevo to Bretton Woods: 1914 to 1944 198 -- 8 Sterling Since the War 231.".
- catalog title "Sterling, a history of a currency / Nicholas Mayhew.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".