Nation-States and Money: The Past, Present and Future of National Currencies (Ripe Series in Global Political Economy,)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures and tables......Page 10
List of contributors......Page 11
Series editors' preface......Page 14
Preface and acknowledgements......Page 16
Introduction;nation-states and money: historical contexts, interdisciplinary perspectives......Page 18
Nations, states and currencies in historical perspective......Page 40
Forging a national currency: money, state-building and nation-making in Canada......Page 42
'The Scotch hate gold': British identity and paper money......Page 64
Local currencies in pre-industrial Japan......Page 85
Official standardisation vs. social differentiation in Americans' uses of money......Page 99
A distant view: imagery and imagination in the paper currency of the British Empire, 1800  1960......Page 114
Challenges to national currencies in the contemporary age......Page 134
The new geography of money......Page 138
Denationalising money?: economic liberalism and the 'national question' in currency affairs......Page 156
Moral geographies of money......Page 176
Globalisation of money?: national sovereignty and the management of risk......Page 199
The logic of giving up national currencies: lessons from Europe's monetary union......Page 216
Conclusion;the future of national currencies?......Page 232
Index......Page 247