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The Making of National Money
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 century. This major change involved a narrow definition of legal tender and the exclusion of tokens of value issued outside the national territory. "Territorial currencies" rapidly became bound up with the rise of national markets, and money reflec...
Towards a Sociology of the Cinema (ILS 92)
First published in 1998. This is Volume IX, of nine in the Sociology of Culture series and looks at the a comparative essay on the structure and functioning of a major entertainment industry: the cinema.
The Artist in Modern Society
Essays and statements about the artist's status in 20th century society.
Subject Catalog
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National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
