Sterling: The History of a CurrencyISBN: 978-0-471-38535-6
Hardcover
298 pages
May 2000
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English Money from Domesday Book to Henry VIII.
Inflation: 1515 to 1650.
Goldsmiths, Locke and the Birth of the Bank.
The Age of Daniel Defoe and Adam Smith.
From Pitt to Peel: 1797 to 1847.
The Golden Age of Sterling: 1851 to 1914.
From Sarajevo to Bretton Woods: 1914 to 1944.
Sterling Since the Second World War.
Appendix.
Glossary.
Further Reading.
Index.