The Making of National Money

by Eric Helleiner

Why should each country have its own exclusive currency? Eric Helleiner offers a fascinating and unique perspective on this question in his accessible history of the origins of national money. Our contemporary understandings of national currency are, Helleiner shows, surprisingly recent. Based on standardized technologies of production and extraction, territorially exclusive national currencies emerged for the first time only during the nineteenth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801440491
• ISBN13: 9780801440496
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher