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Jotham Parsons - Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France: Currency, Culture, and the State - 9780801451591 - V9780801451591
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Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France: Currency, Culture, and the State

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Description for Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France: Currency, Culture, and the State Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 3, 3 charts. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JB; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 167 x 24. Weight in Grams: 606.

Coinage and currency—abstract and socially created units of value and power—were basic to early modern society. By controlling money, the people sought to understand and control their complex, expanding, and interdependent world. In Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France, Jotham Parsons investigates the creation and circulation of currency in France. The royal Cour des Monnaies centralized monetary administration, expanding its role in the emerging modern state during the sixteenth century and assuming new powers as an often controversial repository of theoretical and administrative expertise.

The Cour des Monnaies, Parsons shows, played an important role in developing the contemporary understanding of ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801451591
SKU
V9780801451591
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About Jotham Parsons
Jotham Parsons is Associate Professor of History at Duquesne University. He is the author of The Church in the Republic: Gallicanism and Political Ideology in Renaissance France.

Reviews for Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France: Currency, Culture, and the State
Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France will be an important and invaluable reference for anyone working in early modern economic history. It is ambitious in its analysis, engagingly written, and wide ranging. The great strength of the book, in addition to its history of economic thought, is Parsons' astute weaving of different strands of sociological literature and unstudied archival material. In ... Read more

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