The Social Life of Money in the English Past.(Book review)

The Historian | December 22, 2007| | Copyright

The Social Life of Money in the English Past. By Deborah Valenze. (New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 308. $23.99.)

The significance of money will come as no surprise to anyone with a mortgage, an adolescent, or the need to buy lunch in London. But in this new book, the author provides money with a social life that is every bit as intriguing as that of humans in English history. Deborah Valenze is concerned with the efforts to master "the problematic qualities of money as the age rearranged categories and rules to accommodate the volatile ...

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