A study of how people understood and used money from 1630 to 1800 in England. Deborah Valenze shows how money became involved in relations between people in way
In an age when authoritative definitions of currency were in flux and small change was scarce, money enjoyed a rich and complex social life. Deborah Valenze sho
From the early days of colonial rule in India, the British established a two-tier system of legal administration. Matters deemed secular were subject to British
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017 The first social and cultural history of vagrancy between 1650 and 1750, this book combines sources from across England a