Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Peasants use money -- 2 Four quadrants of exchange -- 3 Exchange and institutional setting -- 4 Global history of money viewed from the ground -- 5 Bad money does not drive out good money: literature -- Part 1 Exchanges generate money locally -- 1 Peasants, marketplace and money -- 1 Peasants exchange with peasants anonymously -- 2 Marketplace for one-time transactions -- 3 Natives preferred local currencies -- 4 Ubiquitous fractional currencies and petty exchangers -- 5 Subsequent transactions not through marketplace: another configuration between peasants and merchants -- 6 Honour substitutes for currency -- 7 Freedom or certainty: two paths (not stages) of local commercialization -- 2 Stagnant currencies and stratified markets -- 1 Exogenous currencies naturally stagnate -- 2 Unidirectional streams of small currencies -- 3 Stratified markets in agricultural societies -- 4 Informal agreements generate endogenous currencies -- 5 How merchants conducted business in stratified markets -- 6 Locally differentiated currencies and dematerialized money -- Part 2 A global history of monetary delocalization -- 3 The ignition of monetary delocalization: an unexpected remnant of the Mongolian regime, c.1300 -- 1 Independent monetary systems in pre-13th century civilizations -- 2 The Eurasian silver century: emergence and collapse -- 3 The Mongolian taxation system depended on commerce -- 4 Paper monies drove out Chinese silver ingots to the west -- 5 Commensurability prevailed across Eurasia -- 6 Copper coins driven East and South -- 7 The Eurasian age of commerce: synchrony built on stratified markets -- 8 Sprouting of credit-oriented systems in Europe: an aftermath.
