This volume examines the monetary history of a large empire located at the crossroads of intercontinental trade from the fourteenth century until the end of World War I. It covers all regions of the empire from the Balkans through Anatolia, Syria, Egypt and the Gulf to the Maghrib. The implications of monetary developments for social and political history are also discussed throughout the volume. This is an important and pathbreaking book by one of the most distinguished economic historians in the field.
This volume examines the monetary history of a large empire located at the crossroads of intercontinental trade from the fourteenth century until the end of World War I. It covers all regions of the empire from the Balkans through Anatolia, Syria, Egypt and the Gulf to the Maghrib. The implications of monetary developments for social and political history are also discussed throughout the volume. This is an important and pathbreaking book by one of the most distinguished economic historians in the field.
List of maps, graphs and tables List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Note on transliteration 1. Introduction 2. Trade and money at the origins 3. Interventionism and debasements as policy 4. The emerging monetary system 5. Credit and finance 6. Money and empire 7. The price revolution in the Near East revisited 8. Debasement and disintegration 9. In the absence of domestic currency 10. The new Kurus 11. Linkages with the periphery 12. The great debasement 13. From bimetallism to the "limping gold standard" 14. Conclusions Appendices Bibliography Index.
List of maps, graphs and tables List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Note on transliteration 1. Introduction 2. Trade and money at the origins 3. Interventionism and debasements as policy 4. The emerging monetary system 5. Credit and finance 6. Money and empire 7. The price revolution in the Near East revisited 8. Debasement and disintegration 9. In the absence of domestic currency 10. The new Kurus 11. Linkages with the periphery 12. The great debasement 13. From bimetallism to the "limping gold standard" 14. Conclusions Appendices Bibliography Index.
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