Money in the Pre-Industrial World: Bullion, Debasements and Coin Substitutes: Financial History

Introduction, John H. Munro; Chapter 1 The Technology and Economics of Coinage Debasements in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: With Special Reference to the Low Countries and England, John H. Munro; Chapter 2 From Aurelian to Diocletian: Financing Imperial Recovery by Coinage Debasements and Fiduciary Currencies, Kenneth W. Harl; Chapter 3 The Making of a Gold Standard: The Ducat and Its Offspring, 1284-2001, Alan Stahl; Chapter 4 Debasement of the Coinage and Its Effects on Exchange Rates and the Economy: In England in the 1540s, and in the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands in the 1480s, Peter Spufford; Chapter 5 The Amsterdam Wisselbank's Innovations in the Monetary Sphere: The Role of 'Bank Money', Herman Van der Wee; Chapter 6 Silver in England 1600-1800: Coinage Outputs and Bullion Exports from the Records of the London Tower Mint and the London Company of Goldsmiths, Nicholas J. Mayhew; Chapter 7 The Burdens of Tradition: Debasements, Coinage Circulation and Mercantilist Public Policy Debates in Seventeenth-Century Aragon, José Antonio Mateos Royo; Chapter 8 Money or Export Commodity for Asia? American Silver in the Markets of Mexico, Castile and Amsterdam from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century, Renate Pieper; Chapter 9 Cacao Beans in Colonial México: Small Change in a Global Economy, Arturo Giraldez; Chapter 10 Precious Metals, Debasements and Cowrie Shells in the Medieval Indian Monetary Systems, c. 1200-1575, John S. Deyell;

The papers in this edited volume discuss key elements of monetarism, including coin denominations, the role of bullion and case studies of substitute moneys.