Lindemann / Poley Money in the German-speaking Lands

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-589-1
Verlag: Berghahn
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 17, 328 Seiten, Mobipocket Unencrypted

Reihe: Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association

As the years following the 2008 financial crisis have made clear, Europeanization, in its current form, is largely organized and enacted with German money. But this is not as recent a phenomenon as it might seem: Germany's leading role in EU financial policy is in a sense only the latest step in a long historical trajectory of attempts to forge political unification with the tools of economic integration. This volume follows this trajectory from the late Renaissance until the close of the twentieth century, exploring the connections between economics and politics throughout German history, as well as money's cultural and symbolic dimensions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lindemann, Mary

Poley, Jared

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Mary Lindemann and Jared Poley

Chapter 1. Money from the Spirit World: Treasure Spirits, Geldmännchen, Drache

Johannes Dillinger

Chapter 2. Perfecting the State: Alchemy and Oeconomy as Academic Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern German-speaking Lands

Vera Keller

Chapter 3. Money Tree: Living in the Shadow of a Patrician Family in Hamburg

Almut Spalding

Chapter 4. Silver Taler and Ur-Cameralists

Andre Wakefield

Chapter 5. "All that glitters is not gold, but": German Responses to the Financial Bubbles of 1720

Eve Rosenhaft

Chapter 6. A Conspicuous Lack of Consumption: Money, Luxury, and Fashion in King Frederick William I's Prussia (c. 1713-1740)

Benjamin Marschke

Chapter 7. "Alles Geld gehet immer auf":  Money in an Emerging Consumer and Cash Economy, Göppingen (1735-1860)

Dennis Frey, Jr.

Chapter 8. Status, Friendship, and Money in Hamburg around 1800: Debit and Credit in the Diaries of Ferdinand Beneke (1774-1848)

Frank Hatje

Chapter 9. Luxury and the Nineteenth-Century Württemberg Pietists

Jan Carsten Schnurr

Chapter 10. Marx on Money

Jonathan Sperber

Chapter 11. Modernism, Relativism, and the Philosophy of Money

Elizabeth S. Goodstein

Chapter 12. A Narrative in Notgeld: Collecting, Emergency Money, and National Identity in Weimar Germany

Erica L. Briesacher

Chapter 13. Predatory Speculators, Honest Creditors: Wealth as Root of Evil or Proof of Virtue in Weimar Germany

Michael L. Hughes

Chapter 14. Mobilizing Citizens and their Savings: Germany's Public Savings Banks, 1933-1939

Pamela E. Swett

Chapter 15. "One Would Not Get Far Without Cigarettes": The Cigarette Economy in Occupied Germany, 1945-1948

Kraig Larkin

Chapter 16. When the Deutsch Mark Was in Short Supply: Reconstruction Finance Between Currency Reform and "Economic Miracle"

Armin Grünbacher

Chapter 17. Between Memorialization and Monetary Re-Valuation: The 1990 Currency Union as a Site of Post-Unification Memory Work

Ursula M. Dalinghaus

Afterword: Simmel's Berlin and Money as Social Consensus

Michael J. Sauter

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Poley, Jared
Jared Poley is Professor of History at Georgia State University. He is the author of the books The Devil's Riches: A Modern History of Greed (Berghahn, 2016) and Decolonization in Germany: Weimar Narratives of Colonial Loss and Foreign Occupation (Peter Lang, 2005) and a co-editor of the collections Migrations in the German Lands, 1500–2000 (Berghahn, 2016) and Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany (Berghahn, 2012).

Lindemann, Mary
Mary Lindemann is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Miami. She is the author of four books:  Patriots and Paupers: Hamburg, 1712-1830 (Oxford University Press, 1990); Health and Healing in Eighteenth-Century Germany (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996); Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1999; 2nd edition, 2010); Liaisons dangereuses: Sex, Law, and Diplomacy in the Age of Frederick the Great (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).