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• COVER PAGE
• TITLE PAGE
• COPYRIGHT PAGE
• A HISTORY OF MONEY
• LIST OF TABLES
• FOREWORD
• 1: INTRODUCTION
• THE PLAN OF THE BOOK
• PART I: MONEY AS COIN
• 2: SOME CONCEPTS OF MONEY
• INTRODUCTION
• SOME CONCEPTS OF MONEY
• COINAGE SYSTEMS WITH TWO OR THREE METALS
• 3: MONEY IN EUROPE TO 1250
• THE CAROLINGIAN REFORM
• ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH COINAGE
• MONEY IN CONTINENTAL EUROPE
• 4: MONEY IN THE COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION
• INTRODUCTION
• GOLD
• APPENDIX
• MONIES OF ACCOUNT IN VENICE
• 5: THE GREAT DEBASEMENT OF HENRY VIII’S REIGN
• THE EARLY YEARS
• THE GREAT DEBASEMENT
• ANALYSIS OF THE GREAT DEBASEMENT
• THE RESTORATION OF THE COINAGE
• PRIVATE ENTERPRISE
• LONGER PERIOD PRICE TRENDS
• APPENDIX
• THE COINS OF THE DEBASEMENT
• 6: THE RECOINAGE OF 1696 —LOCKE, LOWNDES AND NEWTON
• BACKGROUND
• THE STATE OF THE COINAGE
• 7: FORMALISING THE UNITED KINGDOM GOLD STANDARD
• TOWARDS A GOLD STANDARD
• THE OPERATION OF THE GOLD STANDARD
• 8: BIMETALLISM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
• THE ISSUE STATED
• BIMETALLISM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
• 9: MONETARY UNION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY—THE COLLAPSE OF BIMETALLISM IN EUROPE
• EARLY MONETARY UNIONS
• THE CONFERENCE OF 1867
• WAS BIMETALLISM AN ISSUE?
• 10: BIMETALLISM—THE UNITED STATES AND INDIA
• THE UNITED STATES—INTRODUCTION
• INDIA
• 11: SUPPORTERS AND OPPONENTS OF BIMETALLISM
• THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
• 12: THE EARLIER HISTORY OF MONEY
• ANCIENT GREECE
• ROME
• BYZANTIUM
• PART II: THE DEVELOPMENT OF CREDIT AND BANKING
• 13: INTRODUCTION
• MONEY THEORY
• 14: CREDIT AND THE TRADE FAIRS
• INTRODUCTION
• THE HISTORY AND PURPOSE OF THE TRADE FAIRS
• 15: THE DEVELOPMENT OF BANKING AND FINANCE
• INTRODUCTION
• THE BANK OF AMSTERDAM
• BANKING IN ENGLAND
• 16: THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE: 1720
• THE EARLY HISTORY
• 17: DEPOSIT BANKING IN ENGLAND
• BANKING AFTER THE NAPOLEONIC WARS
• WHAT IS MEANT BY ‘MONEY’?
• THE BANK CHARTER ACT OF 1833
• 18: MONEY AND BANKING IN THE UNITED STATES
• INTRODUCTION
• BANKING
• FROM 1787 TO THE WAR OF 1812
• THE WAR OF 1812 AND SUSPENSION
• THE SECOND BANK OF THE UNITED STATES
• 19: AFTER THE BANK WARS: THE UK/US CRISES OF 1836 TO 1839
• THE UNITED STATES AFTER THE BANK WARS
• THE CRISIS
• 20: PRIVATE BANKING IN THE EARLY UNITED STATES
• PRIVATE BANKING BEFORE 1837
• 21: THE BANK CHARTER ACT OF 1844 AND THE CRISIS OF 1847
• THE BANK CHARTER
• THE CRISIS OF 1847
• PART III: INCONVERTIBLE PAPER MONEY
• 22: INTRODUCTION—LAND BANKS
• INTRODUCTION
• LAND BANKS
• 23: JOHN LAW, RICHARD CANTILLON, AND THE MISSISSIPPI SCHEME
• INTRODUCTION
• 24: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND THE BIRTH OF THE DOLLAR
• INTRODUCTION
• WORLD MONEY BEFORE 1776
• THE BIRTH OF THE DOLLAR—A CURRENCY FOR THE NEW NATION
• 25: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE ASSIGNATS
• MONEY IN PRE-REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE
• APPENDIX
• 26: THE SUSPENSION OF PAYMENTS, 1797 TO 1821
• THE STATE OF THE BRITISH COINAGE IN 1797
• WAR WITH FRANCE
• 27: THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR AND THE GREENBACKS
• BACKGROUND TO THE WAR AND THE FINANCING OF IT
• 28: SOME OTHER CASES OF INCONVERTIBLE PAPER MONEY
• INTRODUCTION
• 29: POSTSCRIPT—THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY
• INTRODUCTION
• AFTER THE WAR: THE RETURN TO GOLD
• NOTES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES