| | List of figures and tables | | |
| | List of contributors | | |
| | Series editors preface | | |
| | Preface and acknowledgements | | |
1 | | Introduction - nation-states and money: historical contexts, interdisciplinary perspectives by Emily Gilbert and Eric Helleiner | | 1 |
Pt. I | | Nations, states and currencies in historical perspective | | 23 |
2 | | Forging a national currency: money, state-building and nation-making in Canada by Emily Gilbert | | 25 |
3 | | The Scotch hate gold: British identity and paper money by Matthew Rowlinson | | 47 |
4 | | Local currencies in pre-industrial Japan by Makoto Maruyama | | 68 |
5 | | Official standardisation vs. social differentiation in Americans uses of money by Viviana Zelizer | | 82 |
6 | | A distant view: imagery and imagination in the paper currency of the British Empire, 1800-1960 by Virginia Hewitt | | 97 |
Pt. II | | Challenges to national currencies in the contemporary age | | 117 |
7 | | The new geography of money by Benjamin Cohen | | 121 |
8 | | Denationalising money?: economic liberalism and the national question in currency affairs by Eric Helleiner | | 139 |
9 | | Moral geographies of money by Nigel Thrift and Andrew Leyshon | | 159 |
10 | | Globalisation of money?: national sovereignty and the management of risk by Nigel Dodd | | 182 |
11 | | The logic of giving up national currencies: lessons from Europes monetary union by Amy Verdun | | 199 |
12 | | Conclusion - the future of national currencies? by Eric Helleiner | | 215 |
| | Index | | 230 |