{"product_id":"stuff-and-money-in-the-time-of-the-french-revolution-9780674975422","title":"Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best History Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Title of the Year \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRebecca L. Spang, who revolutionized our understanding of the restaurant, has written a new history of money. It uses one of the most infamous examples of monetary innovation, the \u003ci\u003eassignats\u003c\/i\u003e--a currency initially defined by French revolutionaries as \"circulating land\"--to demonstrate that money is as much a social and political mediator as it is an economic instrument. Following the \u003ci\u003eassignats\u003c\/i\u003e from creation to abandonment, Spang shows them to be subject to the same slippages between policies and practice, intentions and outcomes, as other human inventions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is a quite brilliant, assertive book.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Patrice Higonnet, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Brilliant...What [Spang] proposes is nothing less than a new conceptualization of the revolution...She has provided historians--and not just those of France or the French Revolution--with a new set of lenses with which to view the past.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Arthur Goldhammer, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[Spang] views the French Revolution from rewardingly new angles by analyzing the cultural significance of money in the turbulent years of European war, domestic terror and inflation.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Tony Barber, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpang, Rebecca L.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Rebecca L. Spang is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eStuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e (Harvard).","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50326996091154,"sku":"9780674975422","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4317ab7f-3c94-463c-ad7c-6f76cde18c88.jpg?v=1727708040","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/stuff-and-money-in-the-time-of-the-french-revolution-9780674975422","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}