The Euro and Its Rivals: Currency and the Construction of a Transnational City

by Gustav Peebles

Book Overview

Gustav Peebles takes an anthropological look at two seemingly separate developments in Europe at the turn of the millennium: the rollout of the euro and the building of new transnational regions such as the Oresund Region, envisioned as a melding of Copenhagen, Denmark, with Malm , Sweden. Peebles argues that the drive to create such transnational spaces is inseparable from the drive to create a pan-national currency. He studies the practices and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253223202
• ISBN13: 9780253223203
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher