Forging Nations : Currency, Power, and Nationality in Britain and Ireland Since 1603 / David Blaazer

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10007685
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Author:
Blaazer, David, author
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Description:
  • Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, [2023]
  • 1 online resource ( 317 p.) :
ISBN:
  • 9780192887030 (electronic book)
  • 0192887033 (electronic book)
  • 019198177X (electronic book)
  • 9780191981777 (electronic book)
Full contents:
  • Intro
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication page
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Note on Dates
  • Introduction
  • What Is Money? Defining the Subject Matter
  • Money and the Nation in Three Kingdoms
  • Money and History
  • Road Map
  • 1. 'I will make them one nation': 1603-1660
  • Money in England, Scotland, and Ireland before the Regal Union
  • Uniting the Nations: Regal, Political and Monetary Unions
  • The Fracturing and Remaking of the Monetary Order
  • 2. The Decline of the Old Monetary Order: 1660-1689
  • 1660: Restoring Difference
  • Crises, Credit, and the Origins of Modern Money
  • Ireland: Managing Monetary Catastrophe
  • Scotland: the Uses and Abuses of Monetary Autonomy
  • The Price of Revolution: the Monetary Consequences of 1689
  • 3. Money and Revolution-the Case of England: 1690-1697
  • Monetary Revolution I: the Case for the Concept
  • Monetary Revolution II: Banks
  • The Coinage Crisis: Judicial Terror and Popular Resistance
  • Monetary Revolution III: Coins
  • 4. Revolution, Union, and Divergence-from Scotland to North Britain: 1689-1772
  • Storms from the South: Scotland's Money and England's Revolution
  • A Failed Revolution? Bank of Scotland and the Company of Scotland
  • Exporting Revolution? The Union of the Coins
  • Converging Diversity: Scottish and British Money after the Union
  • 5. Engines of State, Emblems of Nation, Tokens of Trust: 1695-1796
  • Monetary Standards, New and Non-Existent
  • Struggles over Credit I: the South Sea Bubble
  • Struggles over Credit II: Banking in Ireland 1721-82
  • Ireland: Struggles over Coin
  • Ireland: towards a Sterling Standard
  • Credit and Counterfeits: Managing the Scarcity of Money
  • 6. The Only True, Intelligible Standard: 1793-1822
  • The Suspension of Cash Payments
  • Paper against Gold: the Push for Resumption
  • The People's Money
  • The Price of Gold
  • 7. The Limits of Perfection: 1825-1914
  • Uniformity and Its Discontents: the 1825 Crisis and Its Aftermath
  • Uniformity Bungled: the Assimilation of the Irish Coinage
  • Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy: the Unequal Struggle over Gold
  • No Failure Like Success: the Banking Acts of 1844 and 1845
  • The Golden Age
  • 8. Things Fall Apart: 1914-1931
  • The First World War: Remaking the Monetary Order
  • 'Back to Sanity': the Price of Orthodoxy
  • 'A Golden Gallipoli': the Return to Gold and Its Critics
  • Union (Partially) Undone: Creating an Irish Currency
  • 1931: Power, Patriotism, and the Discourse of Catastrophe
  • Epilogue: The Burdens and Uses of the Past
  • Memory, History, and the 'Decline' of Sterling
  • Money, Sovereignty, and Identity in Ireland and the UK
  • History and Forgetting in the Scottish Currency Debate
  • Final Thoughts: the Global Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index
Notes:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 03, 2023).
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