Nation-States and Money

rB'This is an excellent book, which will long be seen as providing a defining statement on the links between money and nation-states. The editors have clearly paid much attention to the minutiae of putting the book together and should be congratulated' - Tim Unwin, University of London

• Introduction Emily Gilbert and Eric Helleiner I: National Currencies in Historical Perspective 1. The Scotch Hate Gold: Nation, identity, and paper money Matthew Rowlinson, Dartmouth College, UK 2. Spaces of money-power: The Bank of England and the Formation of national currency in nineteenth-century England and Wales Iain Black, Cheltenham College of Higher Education, UK 3. Local currencies in pre-industrial Japan Makoto Maruyama, University of Tokyo, Japan 4. Official standardization vs. social differentiation in Americans' uses of money Viviana Zelizer, Princeton University, US 5. Nineteenth-Century images on Latin American currencies Miguel Centeno, Princeton University, US 6. Token gestures? Images of nation and empire and the rise of a Canadian national currency Emily Gilbert, University of Bristol, UK 7. A distant view: Imagery and imagination in the paper currency of the British Empire, 1800 - 1960 Virginia Hewitt, British Museum, London, UK II: National Currencies and their Future in the Contemporary World 8. The new geography of money Benjamin Cohen, University of Santa Barbara 9. The Political Origins of Euromoney Peter Burnham, University of Warwick, UK 10. The logic of giving up national currencies: lessons from Europe's monetary union Amy Verdun, European University Institute 11. Alternative networks of calculation: local knowledge, associative democracy and the rise of 'alternative institutions of accumulation' Andrew Leyshon andNigel Thrift, University of Bristol, UK 12. Global uncertainties of money: National sovereignty and the management of risk Nigel Dodd, London School of Economics, UK 13. Denationalising money? Economic liberalism and the national question in the late twentieth century Eric Helleiner, York University, UK