Nation-states and money : the past, present and future of national currencies / edited by Emily Gilbert and Eric Helleiner.

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TextSeries: Routledge/RIPE studies in global political economy ; 2.Publication details: London : New York : Routledge, ©1999.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 240 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0203450930
9780203450932
9786610061891
6610061890
9781134658183
1134658184
9781134658138
1134658133
9781134658176
1134658176
9780415510493
041551049X
0203459822
9780203459829
1280061898
9781280061899
0429232195
9780429232190

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Nation-states and money.DDC classification:

332.4 21

LOC classification:

HG221 .N335 1999eb

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83.50

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Contents:

Nation-states and money : historical contexts, interdisciplinary perspectives / Emily Gilbert and Eric Helleiner -- Forging a national currency : money, state-building and nation-making in Canada / Emily Gilbert -- 'Scotch hate gold' : British identity and paper money / Matthew Rowlinson -- Local currencies in pre-industrial Japan / Makoto Maruyama -- Official standardisation vs. social differentiation in Americans' use of money / Viviana Zelizer -- Distant view : imagery and imagination in the paper currency of the British Empire, 1800-1960 / Virginia Hewitt -- New geography of money / Benjamin Cohen -- Denationalising money? : Economic liberalism and the 'national question' in currency affairs / Eric Helleiner -- Moral geographies of money / Nigel Thrift and Andrew Leyshon -- Globalisation of money? : National sovereignty and the management of risk / Nigel Dodd -- Logic of giving up national currencies : lessons from Europe's monetary union / Amy Verdun -- Future of national currencies? / Eric Helleiner.

Summary: National currencies appear to be threatened from all sides. European Union member countries are due to abandon their national currencies in favour of a supranational currency by the year 2000. Elsewhere, the use of foreign currencies within national economic spaces is on the increase, as shown by the growth of eurocurrency activity, and currency substitution in many parts of the world. In the last decade, privately-issued sub-national local currencies have also proliferated in a number of countries, and predict the emergence of private electronic monies of the future. In the light of t.

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National currencies appear to be threatened from all sides. European Union member countries are due to abandon their national currencies in favour of a supranational currency by the year 2000. Elsewhere, the use of foreign currencies within national economic spaces is on the increase, as shown by the growth of eurocurrency activity, and currency substitution in many parts of the world. In the last decade, privately-issued sub-national local currencies have also proliferated in a number of countries, and predict the emergence of private electronic monies of the future. In the light of t.

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