Money and Exchange in Europe and America, 1600-1775: A Handbook

By John J. McCusker

Book Overview

The handbook explains how money and exchange functioned as elements of the American economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; it also provides sufficient technical and statistical information to allow the reader to convert a sum recorded in one currency into its equivalent in another. McCusker combines this with a compilation of exhaustive tables that give the commercial rate of exchange between London and the major cities of Europe and the British colonies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807843679
• ISBN13: 9780807843673
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.9" x 7.1"