Money in the German-speaking Lands

Mary Lindemann is Professor Emerita in the Department of History, University of Miami.

“This volume, with the essays’ rich bibliographies, is an excellent resource for scholars and teachers of both undergraduates and graduate students who wish to engage in historical reflection on the issues [of money in German lands].” • German Studies Review“This volume… offers much more than its narrowly framed title subject ‘money’ might imply… Although these essays range far and wide in pursuing German attitudes about wealth, there is also plenty of material here for readers interested in German economic and financial history.” • German History“This fascinating collection of essays brings together empirical and theoretical case studies that are clear, accessible, and succinct. It also serves as an excellent primer on some of the most cutting-edge research on German history being undertaken by Anglophone scholars.” • Philipp Roessner, University of Manchester

• List of Tables and FiguresIntroductionMary Lindemann and Jared PoleyChapter 1. Money from the Spirit World: Treasure Spirits, Geldmännchen, DracheJohannes DillingerChapter 2. Perfecting the State: Alchemy and Oeconomy as Academic Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern German-speaking LandsVera KellerChapter 3. The Money Tree: Living in the Shadow of a Patrician Family in HamburgAlmut SpaldingChapter 4. Silver Thaler and Ur-CameralistsAndre WakefieldChapter 5. “All that glitters is not gold, but…”: German Responses to the Financial Bubbles of 1720Eve RosenhaftChapter 6. A Conspicuous Lack of Consumption: Money, Luxury, and Fashion in King Frederick William I’s Prussia (c. 1713-1740)Benjamin MarschkeChapter 7. “Alles Geld gehet immer auf”:  Money in an Emerging Consumer and Cash Economy, Göppingen (1735-1860)Dennis Frey, Jr.Chapter 8. Status, Friendship, and Money in Hamburg around 1800: Debit and Credit in the Diaries of Ferdinand Beneke (1774-1848)Frank HatjeChapter 9. Luxury and the Nineteenth-Century Württemberg PietistsJan Carsten SchnurrChapter 10. Marx on MoneyJonathan SperberChapter 11. Modernism, Relativism, and the Philosophy of MoneyElizabeth S. GoodsteinChapter 12. A Narrative in Notgeld: Collecting, Emergency Money, and National Identity in Weimar GermanyErika L. BriesacherChapter 13. Predatory Speculators, Honest Creditors: Money as Root of Evil or Proof of Virtue in Weimar GermanyMichael L. HughesChapter 14. Mobilizing Citizens and their Savings: Germany’s Public Savings Banks, 1933-1939Pamela E. SwettChapter 15. “One Would Not Get Far Without Cigarettes”: The Cigarette Economy in Occupied Germany, 1945-1948Kraig LarkinChapter 16. When the Deutsch Mark Was in Short Supply: Reconstruction Finance Between Currency Reform and “Economic Miracle"Armin GrünbacherChapter 17. Between Memorialization and Monetary Re-Valuation: The 1990 Currency Union as a Site of Post-Unification Memory WorkUrsula M. DalinghausAfterword: Simmel’s Berlin and Money as Social ConsensusMichael J. SauterIndex