Mining, Money and Markets in the Early Modern Atlantic Digital Approaches and New Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pieper, Renate (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), de Lozanne Jefferies, Claudia (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Denzel, Markus (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History,
• Subjects: Economic history.; Economic geography.; Finance-History.; Natural resources.; Macroeconomics.; Economic policy.; Economic History.; Economic Geography.; Financial History.; Natural Resource and Energy Economics.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.; Economic Policy.
• Physical Description: XX, 368 p. 37 illus., 34 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783030238940
• ISSN: 2662-6497
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-23894-0

This volume documents recent efforts to track the transformation and trajectory of silver during the early modern period, from its origins in ores located on either side of the Atlantic to its use as currency in the financial centres of continental Europe. As a point of comparison, copper mining and its monetary use in the early modern Atlantic World will also be considered. Contributors rely mainly on economic and economic history methodologies, complemented by geographical and cultural history approaches. The use of novel software applications as tools to explain economic-historical episodes is also detailed.