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Table of Contents:

• Introduction. Money, credit, and value
• 1. New World gold
• 2. Selling the Indies : Columbus and the economy of the marvelous
• 3. Gold : a problematic standard
• 4. The New World of money
• 5. Writing about debt
• 6. The Indies, value, and wealth
• Conclusion. A remote and exotic geography.

Author/Creator:

Vilches, Elvira

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

New World gold: cultural anxiety and monetary disorder in early modern Spain [by Vilches, E.]

Subjects:

Spain — Economic conditions — 16th century

Spain — Economic conditions — 17th century

Economics — Spain — History — 16th century

Economics — Spain — History — 17th century

Gold — Spain — History — 16th century

Gold — Spain — History — 17th century

Credit — Spain — History — 16th century

Credit — Spain — History — 17th century

1500-1699

Economics

Gold

Credit

Economic conditions

Spain

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xi, 361 pages ; 23 cm

Call Numbers:

HC385 .V4725 2010

ISBNs:

9780226856186 (cloth, alk. paper)
0226856186 (cloth, alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2009052401

OCLC Numbers:

457149413