Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution

by Rebecca L. Spang

Book Overview

Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

Rebecca L. Spang, who revolutionized our understanding of the restaurant, has written a new history of money. It uses one of the most infamous examples of monetary innovation, the assignats--a currency initially defined by French revolutionaries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674975421
• ISBN13: 9780674975422
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"