LEADER 04169nam 2200769 a 450 001 9910818791203321 005 20240506194106.0 010 $a1-282-58508-8 010 $a9786612585081 010 $a0-226-85619-4 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226856193 035 $a(CKB)2670000000019460 035 $a(EBL)534601 035 $a(OCoLC)635292388 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000424077 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11270542 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000424077 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10468643 035 $a(PQKB)10248636 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000122049 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC534601 035 $a(DE-B1597)524915 035 $a(OCoLC)642206248 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226856193 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL534601 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10389561 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL258508 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000019460 100 $a20091211d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNew World gold $ecultural anxiety and monetary disorder in early modern Spain /$fElvira Vilches 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago ;$aLondon $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (375 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-85618-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : money, credit, and value -- New world gold -- Selling the Indies : Columbus and the economy of the marvelous -- Gold : a problematic standard -- The new world of money -- Writing about debt -- The Indies, value, and wealth -- Conclusion : a remote and exotic geography. 330 $aThe discovery of the New World was initially a cause for celebration. But the vast amounts of gold that Columbus and other explorers claimed from these lands altered Spanish society. The influx of such wealth contributed to the expansion of the Spanish empire, but also it raised doubts and insecurities about the meaning and function of money, the ideals of court and civility, and the structure of commerce and credit. New World Gold shows that, far from being a stabilizing force, the flow of gold from the Americas created anxieties among Spaniards and shaped a host of distinct behaviors, cultural practices, and intellectual pursuits on both sides of the Atlantic. Elvira Vilches examines economic treatises, stories of travel and conquest, moralist writings, fiction, poetry, and drama to reveal that New World gold ultimately became a problematic source of power that destabilized Spain's sense of trust, truth, and worth. These cultural anxieties, she argues, rendered the discovery of gold paradoxically disastrous for Spanish society. Combining economic thought, social history, and literary theory in trans-Atlantic contexts, New World Gold unveils the dark side of Spain's Golden Age. 606 $aEconomics$zSpain$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aEconomics$zSpain$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aGold$zSpain$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aGold$zSpain$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aCredit$zSpain$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aCredit$zSpain$xHistory$y17th century 607 $aSpain$xEconomic conditions$y16th century 607 $aSpain$xEconomic conditions$y17th century 610 $anew world, gold, spain, exploration, natural resources, wealth, economy, columbus, money, court, monarchy, civility, commerce, credit, trade, empire, travel, conquest, poetry, drama, literature, debt, value, indies, geography, exoticism, nonfiction, silver, annuities, arbitristas, mercantile, anxiety, social change, business, history, discovery, colonialism. 615 0$aEconomics$xHistory 615 0$aEconomics$xHistory 615 0$aGold$xHistory 615 0$aGold$xHistory 615 0$aCredit$xHistory 615 0$aCredit$xHistory 676 $a330.946/04 700 $aVilches$b Elvira$01703171 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818791203321 996 $aNew World gold$94088178 997 $aUNINA