TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alborn,Timothy L.
TI  - All that glittered: Britain's most precious metal from Adam Smith to the Gold Rush 
T2  - Oxford scholarship online
SN  - 9780190603540 (ebook) :
AV  - HG295.G7 A43 2019
U1  - 332.40420941 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Gold
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Gold standard
KW  - Finance
N1  - Also issued in print: 2019; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - From the early eighteenth century into the 1830s, Great Britain was the only major country in the world to adopt gold as the sole basis of its currency, in the process absorbing much of the world's supply of that metal into its pockets, cupboards, and coffers. During the same period, Britons forged a nation by distilling a heady brew of Protestantism, commerce, and military might, while preserving important features of its older social hierarchy. 'All That Glittered' argues for a close connection between these occurrences, by linking justifications for gold's role in British society-starting in the 1750s and running through the mid-nineteenth century gold rushes in California and Australia-to contemporary descriptions of that metal's varied values at home and abroad
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190603519.001.0001
ER  -