Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Introduction
Mary Lindemann and Jared Poley

Chapter 1. Money from the Spirit World: Treasure Spirits, Geldmännchen, Drache
Johannes Dillinger

Chapter 2. Perfecting the State: Alchemy and Oeconomy as Academic Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern German-speaking Lands
Vera Keller

Chapter 3. The Money Tree: Living in the Shadow of a Patrician Family in Hamburg
Almut Spalding

Chapter 4. Silver Thaler and Ur-Cameralists
Andre Wakefield

Chapter 5. “All that glitters is not gold, but…”: German Responses to the Financial Bubbles of 1720
Eve Rosenhaft

Chapter 6. A Conspicuous Lack of Consumption: Money, Luxury, and Fashion in King Frederick William I’s Prussia (c. 1713-1740)
Benjamin Marschke

Chapter 7. “Alles Geld gehet immer auf”:  Money in an Emerging Consumer and Cash Economy, Göppingen (1735-1860)
Dennis Frey, Jr.

Chapter 8. Status, Friendship, and Money in Hamburg around 1800: Debit and Credit in the Diaries of Ferdinand Beneke (1774-1848)
Frank Hatje

Chapter 9. Luxury and the Nineteenth-Century Württemberg Pietists
Jan Carsten Schnurr

Chapter 10. Marx on Money
Jonathan Sperber

Chapter 11. Modernism, Relativism, and the Philosophy of Money
Elizabeth S. Goodstein

Chapter 12. A Narrative in Notgeld: Collecting, Emergency Money, and National Identity in Weimar Germany
Erika L. Briesacher

Chapter 13. Predatory Speculators, Honest Creditors: Money as Root of Evil or Proof of Virtue in Weimar Germany
Michael L. Hughes

Chapter 14. Mobilizing Citizens and their Savings: Germany’s Public Savings Banks, 1933-1939
Pamela E. Swett

Chapter 15. “One Would Not Get Far Without Cigarettes”: The Cigarette Economy in Occupied Germany, 1945-1948
Kraig Larkin

Chapter 16. When the Deutsch Mark Was in Short Supply: Reconstruction Finance Between Currency Reform and “Economic Miracle"
Armin Grünbacher

Chapter 17. Between Memorialization and Monetary Re-Valuation: The 1990 Currency Union as a Site of Post-Unification Memory Work
Ursula M. Dalinghaus

Afterword: Simmel’s Berlin and Money as Social Consensus
Michael J. Sauter

Index

About the Author

Mary Lindemann is Professor Emerita in the Department of History, University of Miami.

Reviews

“This volume, with the essays’ rich bibliographies, is an excellent resource for scholars and teachers of both undergraduates and graduate students who wish to engage in historical reflection on the issues [of money in German lands].” • German Studies Review “This volume… offers much more than its narrowly framed title subject ‘money’ might imply… Although these essays range far and wide in pursuing German attitudes about wealth, there is also plenty of material here for readers interested in German economic and financial history.” • German History “This fascinating collection of essays brings together empirical and theoretical case studies that are clear, accessible, and succinct. It also serves as an excellent primer on some of the most cutting-edge research on German history being undertaken by Anglophone scholars.” • Philipp Roessner, University of Manchester