The monetary history of gold : a documentary history, 1660-1999 / / edited by Mark Duckenfield

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (558 p.)
• Disciplina: 332.4/222/09
• Soggetto topico: Money - History; Gold standard - History; Gold - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: DuckenfieldMark
• Note generali: First published 2004 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Monetary History of Gold; Contents; Acknowledgements; Editorial Note; Section I. The Rise of the Gold Standard, 1660-1819; Resolution of the House of Commons to prohibit the Exportationof Money and Bullion from England; Excerpt from a Report of His Majesty's Council of Trade; 'An Act to prevent the Inconvenience arising by melting theSilver Coin of this Realm'; Excerpt from the Diary of Samuel Pepys; Excerpt from 'An Act for the Encouragement of Trade'; 'An Act for Encourageing of Coynage'; Excerpt from the Diary of Samuel Pepys (October 1667) ; 'An Act for continuing a former Act concerning Coynage'Statement issued by the English Government in Response toReports about large Amounts of Bullion; 'The Mystery of the new fashioned Goldsmiths or Bankers'; Note of a Petition from London Goldsmiths to the House ofCommons; House of Commons Committee Report; 'Observations on the Bill against the Exportation of Gold and Silver, and melting down the Coin of the Realm'; Excerpt from the Parliamentary Diary of Narcissus Luttrell; Sir Dudley North's 'Discourse of Coyned Money' and 'Postscript'; Bank of England Charter ; Report to the House of Commons from the Committee appointed to consider Proposals'Representation to the Lords Justices from the Treasury Lords onthe Price of Guineas'; Resolutions put forward in the Report of the Committee of thewhole House; A short Paper on Guineas written by John Locke; 'An Act for Remedying the Ill State of the Coin of the Kingdom'; Resolution put forward in the Report of the Committee of thewhole House; 'An Act for taking off the Obligation and Incouragement forCoining Guineas for a certaine Time therein mentioned' ; 'An Act to incourage the bringing Plate into the Mint to be Coined, and for the further Remedying the Ill State of the Coin of the Kingdom''An Act for Importing and Coining Guineas and Half-Guineas'; Correspondence of Isaac Newton; Report of the Board of Trade; Excerpts from Hopton Haynes's 'Brief Memoire relating to the Silver and Gold Coins of England'; Report of Isaac Newton (20 January 1701); Report of Isaac Newton to the Lords Commissioners of HisMajesty's Treasury; Report of Isaac Newton to Sidney Godolphin; Excerpt from John Law's famous tractMoney and Trade Considered ; Report of Sir Isaac Newton to the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury (31 December 1710)Report of Sir Isaac Newton (21 Septebmer 1717); Royal Proclamation of King George I; Anonymous Communication to Sir Isaac Newton in Response tothe Publication of Newton's Report; Memorandum containing Sir Isaac Newton's Observations onthe State of the Gold and Silver Coins; Excerpts from the Correspondence of William Pulteney to James Craggs; Excerpts from John Conduitt's Treatise 'Observations upon thepresent State of our Gold and Silver Coins' ; Excerpt from Richard Cantillon'sEssai sur la Nature du Commerce en General
• Sommario/riassunto: This title presents a collection of documents relating to the monetary history of gold from the 17th century up to the present, covering specifically the rise of the gold standard, its heyday, and the period following.
• Titolo autorizzato: The monetary history of gold
• ISBN: 1-315-47612-6; 1-315-47613-4; 1-315-47611-8; 1-78144-634-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464178603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II