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.
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.
Part 1 Powerplay
1. Viking Money and Colonisation in NinthCentury
England
2. The Late Medieval Colonial Condition of the Southern Balkans and
the Aegean in the Light of Coinage
3. Keep Out the Coins! Colonialist
Approaches to Northern Norway by the German Hansa?
4. Exchanging Coins in
Colonial Bombay: Coin Collectors and Scholars at the Bombay Branch of the
Royal Asiatic Society
5. Japanese Invasion Money in the Dutch East Indies and
Indonesia (19421965): Objects of Violence, Oppression and Resistance Part 2
Crossovers
6. Republican Rome in Colonial Discourses: "Consuming" Provincial
Coinages in the Eastern Mediterranean
7. Monetisation, Wealth and Material
Histories in the Colonial Andes
8. First Contacts, First Exchanges, First
Coins: The Surprising and Slow Monetisation of the French West Indies in the
First Half of the Seventeenth Century
9. Of Paper and Metals. East African
Societies, Colonialism and the Materiality of Money Part 3 Entanglements
10.
Carthaginians, Italiots and Greeks: Colonial Coin Iconography in Sicily and
Southern Italy, 500200 BCE
11. Massalias Different Monetary Impact: North
and South
12. Hybrid Dirhams at Rus Markets. Coins and Colonisation along
the Viking Eastern Trade Routes in the Tenth Century CE
13. Crusades,
Colonies and Coins: Strategies and Subversion in the Medieval Baltic Sea
Nanouschka Myrberg Burström is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at Stockholm University, Sweden.
Fleur Kemmers is Professor of Coinage and Money in the Graeco-Roman World at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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