New World gold [[electronic resource] ] : cultural anxiety and monetary disorder in early modern Spain / / Elvira Vilches

• Autore: Vilches Elvira
• Pubblicazione: Chicago ; ; London, : University of Chicago Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (375 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.946/04
• Soggetto topico: Economics - Spain - History - 16th century; Economics - Spain - History - 17th century; Gold - Spain - History - 16th century; Gold - Spain - History - 17th century; Credit - Spain - History - 16th century; Credit - Spain - History - 17th century
• Soggetto geografico: Spain Economic conditions 16th century; Spain Economic conditions 17th century
• Soggetto non controllato: new 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
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: The 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: New World gold
• ISBN: 1-282-58508-8; 9786612585081; 0-226-85619-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792585503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II