Forging Nations : Currency, Power, and Nationality in Britain and Ireland Since 1603 / David Blaazer
- Bib ID:
- 10007685
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- Author:
- Blaazer, David, author
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, [2023]
- 1 online resource ( 317 p.) :
- ISBN:
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- 9780192887030 (electronic book)
- 0192887033 (electronic book)
- 019198177X (electronic book)
- 9780191981777 (electronic book)
- Full contents:
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- 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:
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 03, 2023).
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- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Subject:
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- Money -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History
- Money -- Political aspects -- Ireland -- History
- Currency question -- Great Britain -- History
- Currency question -- Ireland -- History
- Nationalism -- Great Britain -- History
- Nationalism -- Ireland -- History
- Power (Social sciences) -- Great Britain -- History
- Power (Social sciences) -- Ireland -- History
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