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New World gold : cultural anxiety and monetary disorder in early modern Spain /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vilches, Elvira
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Spain > Economic conditions > 16th century.
Spain > Economic conditions > 17th century.
Economics > Spain > History > 16th century.
Economics > Spain > History > 17th century.
Gold > Spain > History > 16th century.
Gold > Spain > History > 17th century.
Credit > Spain > History > 16th century.
Credit > Spain > History > 17th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : money, credit, and value
  • New world gold
  • Selling the Indies : Columbus and the economy of the marvelous
  • Gold : a problematic standard
  • The new world of money
  • Writing about debt
  • The Indies, value, and wealth
  • Conclusion : a remote and exotic geography.