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.
Chapter 1: From Mining to Money in the Early Modern Atlantic: Digital
Approaches and New Perspectives; Renate Pieper, Claudia Jefferies de Lozanne
and Markus A. Denzel.- Chapter 2: Money in History Based on Precious Metals;
Peter Bernholz.- Chapter 3: Debating Sound Money in Early Modern Europe: From
Dualist to Metallic Monetary Systems; Jérōme Blanc and Ludovic
Desmedt.- Chapter 4: Re-presenting Silver in Early Modern Europe; Renate
Pieper.
Chapter 5: A Matter of Scales: Understanding Spatial Patterns of
Colonial Spanish Americas Silver Mining in the Digital Age; Werner Stangl.-
Chapter 6: Manufacturing Landscapes in Spanish America: The Case Study of
Copper Exploitation in Mexico (16th18th Centuries); Amélia Polónia and Johan
Garcia Zaldśa.
Chapter 7: American Silver and its Repercussions on the Old
World: The Curious Case of the Loss-making Spanish Precious Metal Sector.
1590s1640s; Domenic Hofmann.
Chapter 8: Information and Decision Making:
The Logic of Spanish Mining Administration, 1675 1700; Elizabeth Sanabria
Montįńez and Peter Marckhgott-Sanabria.- Chapter 9: Some Determinants of
Local Exchange Rates and in Early Modern Mexican Mining Sites: Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries; Claudia de Lozanne Jefferies.- Chapter 10: Copper
Money in Mexico: The Transition from the Eighteenth to the Nineteenth
Century; José Enrique Covarrubias.
Chapter 11: Minting the Picture: Machines
and Coinage in Transition from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century;
Harald Kleinberger.
Chapter 12: Reloading the Price Revolution in Seville:
Four Stages of High Inflation with Different Causes; Manuel
Gonzįlez-Mariscal.
Chapter 13: Interest Rates and Silver Production: Credit
in Mexico City, between Market and Spirituality (1770-1779 and 1819-1828);
Andrés Calderón Fernįndez, Rafael Dobado-Gonzįlez and Alfredo
Garcia-Hiernaux.
Chapter 14: Exchange Rates and Silver Prices at European
Fairs, 16th18th Centuries; Markus A. Denzel.
Renate Pieper is Professor at the University of Graz, Austria. Her main fields of research are early modern economic and cultural history, the Spanish Empire and its European connections, especially cultural exchange, communication media and networks, mining, prices and state finances
Claudia de Lozanne Jefferies is Senior Lecturer in Economics at City University of London, UK. Her main fields of research are monetary and financial history.
Markus Denzel is Professor and Chair of Social and Economic History at the University of Leipzig, Germany. His main fields of research are international payments, the role of money and bills, and currency history.
