Labnet: Book Ann.: Wages and Currency: Comparisons from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century

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From: Aad Blok <abl at iisg.nl>

Dear subscribers,

In the series International and Comparative Social History, issued by
the International Institute of Social History, a new volume has been
published:

Wages and Currency: Global Comparisons from Antiquity to the Twentieth
Century. International and Comparative Social History, vol.10. Bern
[etc.]: Peter Lang, 2007. ISBN 978-3-03910-782-7, 474 pp.

The basic hypothesis of this volume is that currency patterns may tell
us something about the spread of wage payments in specific societies in
history. As far as wages are paid in currency, in particular in coin,
specific patterns of denominations produced and used in space and time
may provide insights into the importance of wage labour in those
societies. In this book, a number of specialists discuss the
relationship between wages and currency, with reference to different
countries and regions in Europe, Asia, and South America over more than
2000 years. The main purpose of this volume is to look for new sources
from the fields of monetary history and numismatics for the occurrence
and importance of wage labour in general. More specifically, the
contributions offer new perspectives on those periods and those parts of
the world where alternative sources for labour history were hitherto
lacking; or, where a fresh view on the occurrence and nature of wage
labour would be worthwhile.

For more information and the table of contents, please go to
http://www.iisg.nl/publications/978-3-03910-782-7.php 

On the occasion of this publication, a web exposition, "Wages and
Currency: Visualizing Wage Payments", can be visited on
http://www.iisg.nl/research/wagescurrency/index.php.
 
A special offer of a one-time 30% discount is available through the IISH
website. Go to
http://www.iisg.nl/publications/978-3-03910-782-7.php#offer for more
information.

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Aad Blok
Managing Editor
International Institute of Social History
Cruquiusweg 31
1019 AT Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+ 31 20 6685866
http://www.iisg.nl/staff/abl.php

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