Money, coinage and colonialism

• Titel: Money, coinage and colonialism
• Titelzusatz: entangled exchanges
• Mitwirkende: Burström, Nanouschka Myrberg [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Kemmers, Fleur [HerausgeberIn]
• Körperschaft: Round Table Session "Entangled Exchanges - Money, Coinage and Colonial Projects" <2022, Warschau> [VerfasserIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Nanouschka Myrberg Burström and Fleur Kemmers
• Verlagsort: London ; New York
• Verlag: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Jahr: 2025
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 245 Seiten)
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-003-40762-1
• DOI: doi:10.4324/9781003407621
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Dokumenttyp: Konferenzschrift
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Money, coinage and colonialism. - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2025. - volumes cm
• Sach-SW: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
• K10plus-PPN: 1908312351
• K10plus-PPN:
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• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

"This book explores coinage and related object types as an important form of material culture that is crucial to interrogating interactions between coloniser and colonised. Money, Coinage and Colonialism is a much overdue treatment of coinage and money in debates around ancient and recent colonial practices. It argues that coinage offers unique opportunities to study interactions and effects of the meeting between colonisers and colonised, as well as the economic, political and ideological interactions between colonial communities and the state of origin. It is argued that the study of coins and other means of exchange may reveal less apparent and under-communicated processes, values and discourses in the study of colonial environments and projects, with commonalities informing a larger "global history" approach. A broad picture is built from numerous case studies, spanning from Classical Greek colonies to European colonial enterprises of the Modern period, exploring colonial histories, settings, ideology and resistance. Particular attention is paid to the role of coins in identity construction; to ambiguity, hybridity and creolisation of monetary objects in colonial contexts; and to specific uses of coins that tell of violence, oppression and resistance as well as of networks, acculturation and globalisation. Composed of chronologically broad and diverse case studies from colonial contexts, this book is for researchers in colonial and post-colonial archaeology as well as archaeological and cultural-historical numismatics"--

Abstract

Introduction : money, coinage and colonialism - entangled exchanges / Nanouschka M. Burström and Fleur Kemmers -- Viking money and colonisation in ninth-century England / Rory Naismith -- The late medieval colonial condition of the southern Balkans and the Aegean in the light of coinage / Julian Baker -- Keep out the coins! Colonialist approaches to northern Norway by the German Hansa? / Jon Anders Risvaag -- Exchanging coins in colonial Bombay : coin collectors and Scholars at the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society / Shreya Gupta -- Japanese invasion money in the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia (1942-1965) : objects of violence, oppression and resistance / Pim Möhring -- Republican Rome in colonial discourses : 'consuming' provincial coinages in the Eastern Mediterranean / Georgia Galani -- Monetisation, wealth and material histories in the colonial Andes / Noa Corcoran-Tadd -- First contacts, first exchanges, first coins : the surprising and slow monetisation of the French West Indies in the first half of the seventeenth century / Jérôme Jambu -- Of paper and metals. East African societies, colonialism and the materiality of money / Karin Pallaver -- Carthaginians, Italiots and Greeks : colonial coin iconography in Sicily and southern Italy, 500-200 BCE / Ulrike Wolf -- Massalia's different monetary impact : north and south / John Creighton -- Hybrid dirhams at Rus' markets. Coins and colonisation along the Viking eastern trade routes in the tenth century CE / Florent Audy -- Crusades, colonies and coins : strategies and subversion in the medieval Baltic Sea / Nanouschka Myrberg Burström.