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This book explores coinage and related object types as an important form of material culture that is crucial to interrogating interactions between coloniser and colonised.
List of contents
Part 1 Powerplay 1. Viking Money and Colonisation in Ninth‑Century England 2. The Late Medieval Colonial Condition of the Southern Balkans and the Aegean in the Light of Coinage 3. Keep Out the Coins! Colonialist Approaches to Northern Norway by the German Hansa? 4. Exchanging Coins in Colonial Bombay: Coin Collectors and Scholars at the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 5. Japanese Invasion Money in the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia (1942–1965): Objects of Violence, Oppression and Resistance Part 2 Crossovers 6. Republican Rome in Colonial Discourses: "Consuming" Provincial Coinages in the Eastern Mediterranean 7. Monetisation, Wealth and Material Histories in the Colonial Andes 8. First Contacts, First Exchanges, First Coins: The Surprising and Slow Monetisation of the French West Indies in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century 9. Of Paper and Metals. East African Societies, Colonialism and the Materiality of Money Part 3 Entanglements 10. Carthaginians, Italiots and Greeks: Colonial Coin Iconography in Sicily and Southern Italy, 500–200 BCE 11. Massalia’s Different Monetary Impact: North and South 12. Hybrid Dirhams at Rus’ Markets. Coins and Colonisation along the Viking Eastern Trade Routes in the Tenth Century CE 13. Crusades, Colonies and Coins: Strategies and Subversion in the Medieval Baltic Sea
About the author
Nanouschka Myrberg Burström is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at Stockholm University, Sweden.
Fleur Kemmers is Professor of Coinage and Money in the Graeco-Roman World at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Summary
This book explores coinage and related object types as an important form of material culture that is crucial to interrogating interactions between coloniser and colonised.
