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Author Vilches, Elvira, author.

Title New World gold : cultural anxiety and monetary disorder in early modern Spain / Elvira Vilches
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 361 pages)
Contents Introduction : money, credit, and value -- New world gold -- Selling the Indies : Columbus and the economy of the marvelous -- Gold : a problematic standard -- The new world of money -- Writing about debt -- The Indies, value, and wealth -- Conclusion : a remote and exotic geography
Summary Here, the author examines economic treatises, stories of travel and conquest, moralist writings, fiction, poetry, and drama to reveal that New World gold ultimately became a problematic source of power that destabilized Spain's sense of trust, truth and worth
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Economics -- Spain -- History -- 16th century
Economics -- Spain -- History -- 17th century
Gold -- Spain -- History -- 16th century
Gold -- Spain -- History -- 17th century
Credit -- Spain -- History -- 16th century
Credit -- Spain -- History -- 17th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
Credit
Economic history
Economics
Gold
SUBJECT Spain -- Economic conditions -- 16th century
Spain -- Economic conditions -- 17th century
Subject Spain
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009052401
ISBN 9780226856193
0226856194
1282585088
9781282585089
9786612585081
6612585080