Money and Exchange in Europe and America, 1600-1775: A Handbook
- ISBN-10
- 0807812846
- ISBN-13
- 9780807812846
- Pages
- 367
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1978
- Publisher
- Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va.
- Author
- John J. McCusker
Description
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.
