Monetary Transitions: Currencies, Colonialism and African Societies 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3030834603
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3030834609
• Author: Karin Pallaver 

This book uses money as a lens through which to analyze the social and economic impact of colonialism on African societies and institutions. It is the first book to address the monetary history of the colonial period in a comprehensive way, covering several areas of the continent and different periods, with the ultimate aim of understanding the long-term impact of colonial monetary policies on African societies. While grounding an understanding of money in terms of its circulation, acceptance and impact, this book shows first and foremost how the monetary systems that resulted from the imposition of colonial rule on African societies were not a replacement of the old currency systems with entirely new ones, but were rather the result of the convergence of different orders of value and monetary practices. By putting histories of people using money at the heart of the story, and connecting them to larger imperial policies, the volume provides a new and freshperspective on the history of the establishment of colonial rule in Africa.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Money, Colonialism and African Societies
Part I. Early Colonial Transitions: Commodity, International and Colonial Currencies
2. “Here There Is No Gold Standard. Cows Are the Standard”. Multiple Currencies, Colonial Taxation and Monetary Transition in Upper Ghana (1896–1936)
3. Spheres of Money, Payments, and Credit Systems in the Colony of Senegal in the Long Nineteenth Century
4. The Maria Theresa Thaler in Italian Eritrea: The Impact of Colonial Monetary Policies During the First World War
Part II. Money Forms, Politics and Banking in the Transition
5. Gold, Currency and Stamps: The Rejected Plans for a State and Public Bank in Early Colonial Zimbabwe (1896–1907)
6. Beyond Imperial Interests: Settler Regimes, Capital and Africans in Colonial Southern Africa’s Currency Politics to 1920
7. Poverty and the Transition to Instability: The Italian Lira in Eritrean History
8. “We Had to Feed the People”: The Italian Lira and the Political Economy of Currency in British Eritrea, 1941–1950
Part III. Global and Transnational Dimensions of African Monetary Transitions
9. How and Why Did the Rupee Become the Currency of Zanzibar and East Africa?
10. Colonial Money in Africa and National Economy-Building in Britain and Germany: Examining Relations of Agency, 1890s–1930s
11. Another History of Money Viewed from Africa and Asia

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