LEADER 04959nam 2200661 450 001 9910464363703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-7083-2379-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000076959 035 $a(EBL)1889072 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3039975 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1889072 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3039975 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10817751 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL581680 035 $a(OCoLC)923705502 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1889072 035 $a(OCoLC)898422691 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000076959 100 $a20131228e20132002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 12$aA history of money /$fGlyn Davies 205 $aThird edition. 210 1$aCardiff, Wales :$cUniversity of Wales Press,$d2013. 210 4$dİ2002 215 $a1 online resource (739 p.) 300 $a"Published in co-operation with Julian Hodge Bank Limited." 311 $a0-7083-1717-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aForeword by George Thomas, The Right Honourable Viscount Tonypandy; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Preface to the third edition; 1 THE NATURE AND ORIGINS OF MONEY AND BARTER; The importance of money; Sovereignty of monetary policy; Unprecedented inflation of population; Barter: as old as the hills; Persistence of gift exchange; Money: barter's disputed paternity; Modern barter and countertrading; Modern retail barter; Primitive money: definitions and early development; Economic origins and functions; The quality-to-quantity pendulum: a metatheory of money 327 $a2 FROM PRIMITIVE AND ANCIENT MONEY TO THE INVENTION OF COINAGE, 3000-600 BC Pre-metallic money; The ubiquitous cowrie; Fijian whales' teeth and Yap stones; Wampum: the favourite American-Indian money; Cattle: man's first working-capital asset; Pre-coinage metallic money; Money and banking in Mesopotamia; Girobanking in early Egypt; Coin and cash in early China; Coinage and the change from primitive to modern economies; The invention of coinage in Lydia and Ionian Greece; 3 THE DEVELOPMENT OF GREEK AND ROMAN MONEY, 600 BC-AD 400; The widening circulation of coins 327 $aLaurion silver and Athenian coinage Greek and metic private bankers; The Attic money standard; Banking in Delos; Macedonian money and hegemony; The financial consequences of Alexander the Great; Money and the rise of Rome; Roman finance, Augustus to Aurelian, 14 BC-AD 275; Diocletian and the world's first budget, 284-305; Finance from Constantine to the Fall of Rome; The nature of Graeco-Roman monetary expansion; 4 THE PENNY AND THE POUND IN MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN MONEY, 410-1485; Early Celtic coinage; Money in the Dark Ages: its disappearance and re-emergence 327 $aThe Canterbury, Sutton Hoo and Crondall finds From sceattas and stycas to Offa's silver penny; The Vikings and Anglo-Saxon recoinage cycles, 789-978; Danegeld and heregeld, 978-1066; The Norman Conquest and the Domesday Survey, 1066-1087; The pound sterling to 1272; Touchstones and trials of the Pyx; The Treasury and the tally; The Crusades: financial and fiscal effects; The Black Death and the Hundred Years War; Poll taxes and the Peasants' Revolt; Money and credit at the end of the Middle Ages; 5 THE EXPANSION OF TRADE AND FINANCE,1485-1640; What was new in the new era? 327 $aPrinting: a new alternative to minting The rise and fall of the world's first paper money; Bullion's dearth and plenty; Potosi and the silver flood; Henry VII: fiscal strength and sound money, 1485-1509; The dissolution of the monasteries; The Great Debasement; Recoinage and after: Gresham's Law in Action, 1560-1640; The so-called price revolution of 1540-1640; Usury: a just price for money; Bullionism and the quantity theory of money; Banking still foreign to Britain?; 6 THE BIRTH AND EARLY GROWTH OF BRITISH BANKING, 1640-1789; Bank money supply first begins to exceed coinage 327 $aFrom the seizure of the mint to its mechanization, 1640-1672 330 $aAn account of the central importance of money in the ordinary business of the life of different people throughout the ages from ancient times to the present day. It includes the Barings crisis and the report by the Bank of England on Barings Bank; information on the state of Japanese banking; and, the changes in the financial scene in the US. 606 $aMoney 606 $aMoney$xHistory 606 $aCoinage 606 $aCoinage$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMoney. 615 0$aMoney$xHistory. 615 0$aCoinage. 615 0$aCoinage$xHistory. 676 $a332.49 700 $aDavies$b Glyn$f1919-2003.$0140197 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464363703321 996 $aHistory of Money$9499746 997 $aUNINA