CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Between Memorialization and Monetary Revaluation: The 1990 Currency Union as a Site of Post-Unification Memory Work

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. TABLES AND FIGURES vii
4. Introduction 1
5. CHAPTER ONE Money from the Spirit World: Treasure Spirits, Geldmännchen, Drache 10
6. CHAPTER TWO Perfecting the State Alchemy and Oeconomy as Academic Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern German-Speaking Lands 26
7. CHAPTER THREE The Money Tree Living in the Shadow of a Patrician Family in Hamburg 43
8. CHAPTER FOUR Silver Thaler and Ur-Cameralists 58
9. CHAPTER FIVE “All That Glitters Is Not Gold, But . . .” German Responses to the Financial Bubbles of 1720 74
10. CHAPTER SIX A Conspicuous Lack of Consumption: Money, Luxury, and Fashion in King Frederick William I’s Prussia (c. 1713–40) 96
11. CHAPTER SEVEN “Alles Geld gehet immer auf” Money in an Emerging Consumer and Cash Economy, Göppingen (1735–1860) 121
12. CHAPTER EIGHT Status, Friendship, and Money in Hamburg around 1800 Debit and Credit in the Diaries of Ferdinand Beneke (1774–1848) 137
13. CHAPTER NINE Luxury and the Nineteenth- Century Württemberg Pietists 156
14. CHAPTER TEN Marx on Money 173
15. CHAPTER ELEVEN Modernism, Relativism, and the Philosophy of Money 186
16. CHAPTER TWELVE A Narrative in Notgeld: Collecting, Emergency Money, and National Identity in Weimar Germany 203
17. CHAPTER THIRTEEN Predatory Speculators, Honest Creditors: Money as Root of Evil or Proof of Virtue in Weimar Germany 219
18. CHAPTER FOURTEEN Mobilizing Citizens and Their Savings: Germany’s Public Savings Banks, 1933–39 234
19. CHAPTER FIFTEEN “One Would Not Get Far Without Cigarettes” The Cigarette Economy in Occupied Germany, 1945–48 250
20. CHAPTER SIXTEEN When the Deutsch Mark Was in Short Supply: Reconstruction Finance between Currency Reform and “Economic Miracle” 268
21. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Between Memorialization and Monetary Revaluation: The 1990 Currency Union as a Site of Post-Unification Memory Work 283
22. AFTERWORD Simmel’s Berlin and Money as Social Consensus 303
23. INDEX 313