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Private Money and Public Currencies: The Sixteenth Century Challenge The Sixteenth Century Challenge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 1994. Writing as a unified team, the authors, three French economists—they insist they are economists, not economic historians, though they are steeped in the monetary, financial, economic, social, and political history of Europe in the sixteenth century—have written a fascinating account of the development of means of payment at the end of the Renaissance and the beginning of... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction: Money and Society in Sixteenth-Century Europe; Chapter 2 The Italian Exchange Bankers and the World of Fairs; Chapter 3 French Moneyers and the World of Coins; Chapter 4 The European Area of Exchange by Bills; Chapter 5 National Areas of Monetization; Chapter 6 Private Monetization by Exchange Bankers and Public Monetization by Princes; Chapter 7 The International Monetary Crisis of the 1570s; conclusion Conclusion;
Biography
Authored by Marie-Therese Boyer-Xambeau, Ghislain Deleplace, Lucien Gillard. Translated by Azodi, A.
