{"product_id":"stuff-and-money-in-the-time-of-the-french-revolution","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a quite brilliant, assertive book.”\u003cbr\u003e—Patrice Higonnet, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54220479889752,"sku":"9780674975422","price":33.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780674975422_063d81c7-b0e4-4584-81dc-8aff1c35622f.jpg?v=1770269411","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/stuff-and-money-in-the-time-of-the-french-revolution","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}