LEADER 04102nam 2200517 450 001 9910812254603321 005 20180805075352.0 010 $a1-80073-449-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781785335891 035 $a(CKB)4100000000775740 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4789132 035 $a(DE-B1597)635721 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781785335891 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000000775740 100 $a20170623d2017 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aMoney in the German-speaking lands /$fedited by Mary Lindemann and Jared Poley 210 1$aNew York :$cBerghahn Books,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (328 pages) $cillustrations (some color) 225 1 $aSpektrum: publications of the German Studies Association ;$vvolume 17 311 $a1-78533-589-8 311 $a1-78533-588-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tTABLES AND FIGURES -- $tIntroduction -- $tCHAPTER ONE Money from the Spirit World: Treasure Spirits, Geldmännchen, Drache -- $tCHAPTER TWO Perfecting the State Alchemy and Oeconomy as Academic Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern German-Speaking Lands -- $tCHAPTER THREE The Money Tree Living in the Shadow of a Patrician Family in Hamburg -- $tCHAPTER FOUR Silver Thaler and Ur-Cameralists -- $tCHAPTER FIVE ?All That Glitters Is Not Gold, But . . .? German Responses to the Financial Bubbles of 1720 -- $tCHAPTER SIX A Conspicuous Lack of Consumption: Money, Luxury, and Fashion in King Frederick William I?s Prussia (c. 1713?40) -- $tCHAPTER SEVEN ?Alles Geld gehet immer auf? Money in an Emerging Consumer and Cash Economy, Göppingen (1735?1860) -- $tCHAPTER EIGHT Status, Friendship, and Money in Hamburg around 1800 Debit and Credit in the Diaries of Ferdinand Beneke (1774?1848) -- $tCHAPTER NINE Luxury and the Nineteenth- Century Württemberg Pietists -- $tCHAPTER TEN Marx on Money -- $tCHAPTER ELEVEN Modernism, Relativism, and the Philosophy of Money -- $tCHAPTER TWELVE A Narrative in Notgeld: Collecting, Emergency Money, and National Identity in Weimar Germany -- $tCHAPTER THIRTEEN Predatory Speculators, Honest Creditors: Money as Root of Evil or Proof of Virtue in Weimar Germany -- $tCHAPTER FOURTEEN Mobilizing Citizens and Their Savings: Germany?s Public Savings Banks, 1933?39 -- $tCHAPTER FIFTEEN ?One Would Not Get Far Without Cigarettes? The Cigarette Economy in Occupied Germany, 1945?48 -- $tCHAPTER SIXTEEN When the Deutsch Mark Was in Short Supply: Reconstruction Finance between Currency Reform and ?Economic Miracle? -- $tCHAPTER SEVENTEEN Between Memorialization and Monetary Revaluation: The 1990 Currency Union as a Site of Post-Unification Memory Work -- $tAFTERWORD Simmel?s Berlin and Money as Social Consensus -- $tINDEX 330 $aMoney is more than just a medium of financial exchange: across time and place, it has performed all sorts of cultural, political, and social functions. This volume traces money in German-speaking Europe from the late Renaissance until the close of the twentieth century, exploring how people have used it and endowed it with multiple meanings. The fascinating studies gathered here collectively demonstrate money?s vast symbolic and practical significance, from its place in debates about religion and the natural world to its central role in statecraft and the formation of national identity. 410 0$aSpektrum (New York, N.Y.) ;$vvolume 17. 606 $aMoney$zEurope, German-speaking$xHistory 606 $aMoney$zGermany$xHistory 607 $aEurope, German-speaking$xHistory 607 $aGermany$xHistory 615 0$aMoney$xHistory. 615 0$aMoney$xHistory. 676 $a332.4/943 702 $aLindemann$b Mary 702 $aPoley$b Jared$f1970- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812254603321 996 $aMoney in the German-speaking lands$94095623 997 $aUNINA