The social life of money in the English past

List of illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: the social life of money, c.1640-1770 Part I. The Relationship Between Money and Persons: 1. Coins of the realm: the development of a demotic sense of money 2. The phantasm of money: the animation of exchange media in England, c.1600-1770 Part II. Mutable Meanings of Money, ca.1640-1730: 3. Circulating mammon: attributes of money in early modern English culture 4. Refuge from money's mischief: John Bellers and the Clerkenwell Workhouse 5. Quarrels over money: The determination of an acquisitive self in the early eighteenth century Part III. Regulating People Through Money: 6. The measure of money: equivalents of personal value in English law 7. The price of people: rethinking money and power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 8. Money makes masteries: the triumph of the monetary self in the long eighteenth century.