Cultural History of Money in the Age of Empire

Federico Neiburg is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Museu Nacional), Brazil.Nigel Dodd was Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsSeries Preface, Bill Maurer, University of California Irvine, USAIntroduction: Monetary Landscapes of the Nineteenth-Century, Federico Neiburg, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Nigel Dodd, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK1. Money and its Technologies: Inventing the Future through Money - Images of Monetization in Nineteenth Century American Patents, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, University of California ,San Diego, USA2. Money and its Ideas: Colonial Currencies, Money Illusions, Gopalan Balachandran, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland3. Money, Ritual, and Religion: Reason, Race, and the Re-enchantment of the World, Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine, USA4. Money and the Everyday: Paper Money, Community, and Nationalism in the Antebellum US, Michael O’Malley, George Mason University, USA5. Money, Art, and Representation: ‘t’was only a balloon’ - Seeing and Satire in the Cultural History of Money, Nicky Marsh, University of Southampton, UK6. Money and its Interpretation: The Century of Mobility and Acceleration and its Money, Leopoldo Waizbort, University of São Paulo, Brazil 7. Money and the Issues of the Age, Nigel Dodd, London School of Economics and Political Science, UKNotesBibliographyIndex