Money in the German-speaking Lands

Published by Berghahn Books 2017

Money in the German-speaking Lands

Edited by: Mary Lindemann and Jared Poley

Volume 17 in the series Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785335891

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About this book

Money is more than just a medium of financial exchange: across time and place, it has performed all sorts of cultural, political, and social functions. This volume traces money in German-speaking Europe from the late Renaissance until the close of the twentieth century, exploring how people have used it and endowed it with multiple meanings. The fascinating studies gathered here collectively demonstrate money’s vast symbolic and practical significance, from its place in debates about religion and the natural world to its central role in statecraft and the formation of national identity.

Author / Editor information

Mary Lindemann is Professor Emerita in the Department of History, University of Miami.

Jared Poley is Professor and Chair, Department of History, Georgia State University.

Mary Lindemann is Professor Emerita in the Department of History, University of Miami.

Reviews

“This volume, with the essays’ rich bibliographies, is an excellent resource for scholars and teachers of both undergraduates and graduate students who wish to engage in historical reflection on the issues [of money in German lands].” • German Studies Review

“This volume… offers much more than its narrowly framed title subject ‘money’ might imply… Although these essays range far and wide in pursuing German attitudes about wealth, there is also plenty of material here for readers interested in German economic and financial history.” • German History

“This fascinating collection of essays brings together empirical and theoretical case studies that are clear, accessible, and succinct. It also serves as an excellent primer on some of the most cutting-edge research on German history being undertaken by Anglophone scholars.” • Philipp Roessner, University of Manchester

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
TABLES AND FIGURES Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Mary Lindemann and Jared Poley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER ONE Money from the Spirit World: Treasure Spirits, Geldmännchen, Drache Johannes Dillinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
CHAPTER TWO Perfecting the State Alchemy and Oeconomy as Academic Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern German-Speaking Lands Vera Keller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
CHAPTER THREE The Money Tree Living in the Shadow of a Patrician Family in Hamburg Almut Spalding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
CHAPTER FOUR Silver Thaler and Ur-Cameralists Andre Wakefield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
CHAPTER FIVE “All That Glitters Is Not Gold, But . . .” German Responses to the Financial Bubbles of 1720 Eve Rosenhaft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
CHAPTER SIX A Conspicuous Lack of Consumption: Money, Luxury, and Fashion in King Frederick William I’s Prussia (c. 1713–40) Benjamin Marschke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
CHAPTER SEVEN “Alles Geld gehet immer auf” Money in an Emerging Consumer and Cash Economy, Göppingen (1735–1860) Dennis Frey Jr. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
CHAPTER EIGHT Status, Friendship, and Money in Hamburg around 1800 Debit and Credit in the Diaries of Ferdinand Beneke (1774–1848) Frank Hatje Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
CHAPTER NINE Luxury and the Nineteenth- Century Württemberg Pietists Jan Carsten Schnurr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
CHAPTER TEN Marx on Money Jonathan Sperber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
CHAPTER ELEVEN Modernism, Relativism, and the Philosophy of Money Elizabeth S. Goodstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
CHAPTER TWELVE A Narrative in Notgeld: Collecting, Emergency Money, and National Identity in Weimar Germany Erika L. Briesacher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Predatory Speculators, Honest Creditors: Money as Root of Evil or Proof of Virtue in Weimar Germany Michael L. Hughes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Mobilizing Citizens and Their Savings: Germany’s Public Savings Banks, 1933–39 Pamela E. Swett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
CHAPTER FIFTEEN “One Would Not Get Far Without Cigarettes” The Cigarette Economy in Occupied Germany, 1945–48 Kraig Larkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
CHAPTER SIXTEEN When the Deutsch Mark Was in Short Supply: Reconstruction Finance between Currency Reform and “Economic Miracle” Armin Grünbacher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	268
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Between Memorialization and Monetary Revaluation: The 1990 Currency Union as a Site of Post-Unification Memory Work Ursula M. Dalinghaus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
AFTERWORD Simmel’s Berlin and Money as Social Consensus Michael J. Sauter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 328
Keywords: History (General)

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Published: August 1, 2017
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