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

The Social Life of Money in the English Past, by Deborah Valenze. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. xv, 308 pp. $65.00 US (cloth), $23.99 US (paper).

Recent literature concerning the English financial revolution of the 1690s has elucidated how changing conceptions of wealth and virtue helped reshape the relationship between individuals and society. Deborah Valenze explores this broad sense of money's importance in English thought and practice during the long eighteenth century (1660-1770). Rather than providing an economic history of money itself, Valenze's series of case studies focuses upon the multivariate meanings associated with money and its propensity ...

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