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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press
ISBN-100807843679
ISBN-139780807843673
eBay Product ID (ePID)986236
Product Key Features
Book TitleMoney and Exchange in Europe and America, 1600-1775 :A Handbook
Number of Pages382 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1992
TopicUnited States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Money & Monetary Policy
FeaturesNew Edition
GenreBusiness & Economics, History
AuthorJohn J. Mccusker
Book SeriesPublished by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight8 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width11 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN76-054774
Dewey Edition18
Dewey Decimal332.4/5
Edition DescriptionNew Edition
SynopsisExplains how money and exchange functioned as elements of the American economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This book also provides sufficient technical and statistical information to allow the reader to convert a sum recorded in one currency into its equivalent in another., The handbook explains how money and exchange functioned as elements of the American economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; it also provides sufficient technical and statistical information to allow the reader to convert a sum recorded in one currency into its equivalent in another. McCusker combines this with a compilation of exhaustive tables that give the commercial rate of exchange between London and the major cities of Europe and the British colonies.