Monetary Transitions Currencies, Colonialism and African Societies /
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| Summary: | XIII, 309 p. 6 illus. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2022.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022. |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Economic History,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83461-6 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- Section 1: Early colonial transitions: commodity, international and colonial currencies
- 1. “Here there is no gold standard. Cows are the standard”. Currencies, wealth accumulation and the monetary transition in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast (1896-1936); Domenico Cristofaro
- 2. Multiple currencies at Zanzibar, 1860-1900: how and why did the Rupee become the currency of East Africa?; Katherine Eagleton
- 3. Spheres of money, payment, and credit systems in the colony of Senegal and its protectorates in the long nineteenth century; Toyomu Masak
- 4. The Maria Theresa thaler in Italian Eritrea: the Impact of Colonial Monetary Policies during the First Word War; Alessandro De Cola
- Section 2: Forms of colonial money
- 5. The Creation and issue of the West African Sterling notes in West Africa (1914-1947); Bamidélé Aly
- 6. Spheres of exchange and the disruption of money uniformity in early colonial; Kenya Karin Pallaver
- 7. Currency Politics in Southern Africa, c. 1890-1920; Admire Mseba
- 8. The Transition to Instability: the Italian Lira in Eritrean History; Steven Serels
- 9. Temporary Currencies, Forced Savings and Cultivator Stabilization Funds in Sudan; Alden Young
- Section 3: Global and international dimensions of African monetary transitions
- 10. The British Sterling Area and Southern Rhodesia’s State and Public Bank Ordinance, 1896- 1907: Currency shortages and a nascent colonial state’s attempts at economic autonomy; Tinashe Nyamunda
- 11. Money for Africa and empire: colonial policy designs and economy building in Europe, 1890s to 1930s; Gerold Krozewski
- 12. Locate Colonial Africa in the Global Monetary History Viewed from the Ground; Akinobu Kuroda.