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A history of money / / Glyn Davies
| A history of money / / Glyn Davies |
| Autore | Davies Glyn <1919-2003.> |
| Edizione | [Third edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cardiff, Wales : , : University of Wales Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (739 p.) |
| Disciplina | 332.49 |
| Soggetto topico |
Money
Money - History Coinage Coinage - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-7083-2379-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Foreword 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
2 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 Laurion 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 The 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? Printing: 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 From the seizure of the mint to its mechanization, 1640-1672 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464363703321 |
Davies Glyn <1919-2003.>
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| Cardiff, Wales : , : University of Wales Press, , 2013 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A history of money / / Glyn Davies
| A history of money / / Glyn Davies |
| Autore | Davies Glyn <1919-2003.> |
| Edizione | [Third edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cardiff, Wales : , : University of Wales Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (739 p.) |
| Disciplina | 332.49 |
| Soggetto topico |
Money
Money - History Coinage Coinage - History |
| ISBN | 0-7083-2379-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Foreword 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
2 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 Laurion 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 The 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? Printing: 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 From the seizure of the mint to its mechanization, 1640-1672 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789166603321 |
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Davies Glyn <1919-2003.>
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| Cardiff, Wales : , : University of Wales Press, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A history of money / / Glyn Davies
| A history of money / / Glyn Davies |
| Autore | Davies Glyn <1919-2003.> |
| Edizione | [Third edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cardiff, Wales : , : University of Wales Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (739 p.) |
| Disciplina | 332.49 |
| Soggetto topico |
Money
Money - History Coinage Coinage - History |
| ISBN | 0-7083-2379-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Foreword 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
2 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 Laurion 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 The 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? Printing: 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 From the seizure of the mint to its mechanization, 1640-1672 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821849903321 |
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Davies Glyn <1919-2003.>
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| Cardiff, Wales : , : University of Wales Press, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A history of money : from ancient times to the present day / Glyn Davies
| A history of money : from ancient times to the present day / Glyn Davies |
| Autore | Davies, Glyn |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 1994 |
| Descrizione fisica | XIX, 715 p. |
| Soggetto topico | Moneta - Storia |
| ISBN | 0708313515 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991003717799707536 |
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Davies, Glyn
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| Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 1994 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. del Salento | ||
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History of the Gothic : Twentieth-Century Gothic / / Lucie Armitt
| History of the Gothic : Twentieth-Century Gothic / / Lucie Armitt |
| Autore | Armitt Lucie <1962-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cardiff, : University of Wales Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (214 p.) |
| Disciplina | 823.0872909 |
| Collana | History of the Gothic |
| Soggetto topico | Gothic fiction (Literary genre) - History and criticism |
| ISBN |
1-299-20072-9
0-7083-2362-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Illustrations; Introduction; Gothic Pathologies: Haunted Children; Building Suspense:Architectural Gothic; Gothic Inhumanity; Queering the Gothic; Survey of Criticism; Conclusion: Thriller and Stranger; Notes; Annotated Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789885303321 |
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Armitt Lucie <1962->
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| Cardiff, : University of Wales Press, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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History of the Gothic : Twentieth-Century Gothic / / Lucie Armitt
| History of the Gothic : Twentieth-Century Gothic / / Lucie Armitt |
| Autore | Armitt Lucie <1962-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cardiff, : University of Wales Press, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (214 p.) |
| Disciplina | 823.0872909 |
| Collana | History of the Gothic |
| Soggetto topico | Gothic fiction (Literary genre) - History and criticism |
| ISBN |
1-299-20072-9
0-7083-2362-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Illustrations; Introduction; Gothic Pathologies: Haunted Children; Building Suspense:Architectural Gothic; Gothic Inhumanity; Queering the Gothic; Survey of Criticism; Conclusion: Thriller and Stranger; Notes; Annotated Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819212103321 |
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Armitt Lucie <1962->
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| Cardiff, : University of Wales Press, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Hitchcock's magic / / Neil Badmington
| Hitchcock's magic / / Neil Badmington |
| Autore | Badmington Neil <1971-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cardiff : , : University of Wales Press, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 208 p. ) : ill |
| Disciplina | 791.43092 |
| Soggetto topico | Motion pictures - Production and direction |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-7083-2371-5
1-299-20095-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction - Hitchcock's Magic; or, How I Starred in Saboteur Chapter 1 - Ps/zycho Chapter 2 - Frame Tale: Rear Window and the Promise of Vision Chapter 3 - Spect Rebecca Chapter 4 - Stories of 'O': North by Northwest and The Man Who Knew Too Much Chapter 5 - The Animals Who Knew Too Much: The Zoopoetics of The Birds Postscript: Into the Mystery Appendix: The films of Alfred Hitchcock |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453111703321 |
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Badmington Neil <1971->
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| Cardiff : , : University of Wales Press, , 2011 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Hitchcock's magic / / Neil Badmington
| Hitchcock's magic / / Neil Badmington |
| Autore | Badmington Neil <1971-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cardiff : , : University of Wales Press, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 208 p. ) : ill |
| Disciplina | 791.43092 |
| Soggetto topico | Motion pictures - Production and direction |
| ISBN |
0-7083-2371-5
1-299-20095-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction - Hitchcock's Magic; or, How I Starred in Saboteur Chapter 1 - Ps/zycho Chapter 2 - Frame Tale: Rear Window and the Promise of Vision Chapter 3 - Spect Rebecca Chapter 4 - Stories of 'O': North by Northwest and The Man Who Knew Too Much Chapter 5 - The Animals Who Knew Too Much: The Zoopoetics of The Birds Postscript: Into the Mystery Appendix: The films of Alfred Hitchcock |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779430103321 |
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Badmington Neil <1971->
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| Cardiff : , : University of Wales Press, , 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Hitchcock's magic / / Neil Badmington
| Hitchcock's magic / / Neil Badmington |
| Autore | Badmington Neil <1971-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cardiff : , : University of Wales Press, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 208 p. ) : ill |
| Disciplina | 791.43092 |
| Soggetto topico | Motion pictures - Production and direction |
| ISBN |
0-7083-2371-5
1-299-20095-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction - Hitchcock's Magic; or, How I Starred in Saboteur Chapter 1 - Ps/zycho Chapter 2 - Frame Tale: Rear Window and the Promise of Vision Chapter 3 - Spect Rebecca Chapter 4 - Stories of 'O': North by Northwest and The Man Who Knew Too Much Chapter 5 - The Animals Who Knew Too Much: The Zoopoetics of The Birds Postscript: Into the Mystery Appendix: The films of Alfred Hitchcock |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825433503321 |
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Badmington Neil <1971->
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| Cardiff : , : University of Wales Press, , 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The holy grail : history and legend / / Juliette Wood
| The holy grail : history and legend / / Juliette Wood |
| Autore | Wood Juliette |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cardiff, [Wales] : , : University of Wales Press, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (145 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.9337 |
| Soggetto topico |
Grail - Legends - History and criticism
Grail |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-299-20148-2
0-7083-2525-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction; The Sources of the Grail Romances; The Characters in the Grail Quest; Visions of the Grail; From Wales to Glastonbury; Secret Grails and Hidden Messages; Chapels, Monuments and Relics; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462343703321 |
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Wood Juliette
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| Cardiff, [Wales] : , : University of Wales Press, , 2012 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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