Overview
- Depicts specific aspects of mining activity, particularly in early modern Mexico (New Spain) between the 16th and 19th centuries
- Focuses on the transformation of precious metals from bullion to currency
- Traces the effect of changing silver quantities on prices, exchange and interest rates, in various settings on either side of the early modern Atlantic
- Discusses the policy of the Spanish Crown to overcome the volatility of American silver mining and its repercussions on Spanish mining affairs
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Mining
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Money
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Markets
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Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Renate Pieper is Professor at the University of Graz, Austria. Her main fields of research are early modern economic and cultural history, the Spanish Empire and its European connections, especially cultural exchange, communication media and networks, mining, prices and state finances
Claudia de Lozanne Jefferies is Senior Lecturer in Economics at City University of London, UK. Her main fields of research are monetary and financial history.
Markus Denzel is Professor and Chair of Social and Economic History at the University of Leipzig, Germany. His main fields of research are international payments, the role of money and bills, and currency history.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mining, Money and Markets in the Early Modern Atlantic
Book Subtitle: Digital Approaches and New Perspectives
Editors: Renate Pieper, Claudia de Lozanne Jefferies, Markus Denzel
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23894-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23893-3Published: 20 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23896-4Published: 20 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23894-0Published: 03 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2662-6497
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6500
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 368
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic History, Economic Geography, Financial History, Natural Resource and Energy Economics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Economic Policy