Gustav Peebles takes an anthropological look at two seemingly separate developments in Europe at the turn of the millennium: the rollout of the euro and the building of new transnational regions such as the Oresund Region, envisioned as a melding of Copenhagen, Denmark, with Malmö, Sweden. Peebles argues that the drive to create such transnational spaces is inseparable from the drive to create a pan-national currency. He studies the practices and rhetoric surrounding the national currencies of Denmark and Sweden, the euro, and several new "local currencies" struggling to come into being. The Euro and Its Rivals provides a deep historical study of the welfare state and the monetary policies and utopian visions that helped to ground it, at the same time shedding new light on the contemporary movement of goods, people, credit, and debt.
| ISBN: | 9780253223203 |
| Publication date: | 14th June 2011 |
| Author: | Gustav Peebles |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 216 pages |
| Series: | New Anthropologies of Europe |
| Genres: |
European history Urban communities Social and cultural anthropology International relations |
Gustav Peebles takes an anthropological look at two seemingly separate developments in Europe at the turn of the millennium: the rollout of the euro and the building of new transnational regions such as the Oresund Region, envisioned as a melding of Copenhagen, Denmark, with Malmö, Sweden. Peebles argues that the drive to create such transnational spaces is inseparable from the drive to create a pan-national currency. He studies the practices and rhetoric surrounding the national currencies of Denmark and Sweden, the euro, and several new "local currencies" struggling to come into being. The Euro and Its Rivals provides a deep historical study of the welfare state and the monetary policies and utopian visions that helped to ground it, at the same time shedding new light on the contemporary movement of goods, people, credit, and debt.
The Euro and Its Rivals features in the following genres: European history, Urban communities, Social and cultural anthropology, International relations
The Euro and Its Rivals is available in Paperback
The Euro and Its Rivals was written by Gustav Peebles and published by Indiana University Press
The Euro and Its Rivals has 216 pages
Yes it is part of New Anthropologies of Europe series