The History Of Money
- Egypt, Mesopotamia And Greece
- Egypt and Mesopotamia (presently Iraq)
- Coins
- The silver era
- Money and credit
- Wrapping up
- The Far East And China
- Genesis of money and coinage creation
- Shapes and patterns of coins
- Utilization and utility of money
- Paper money
- Lucky charms and money not for utilization
- Debate on money
- Money in current times
- South-East Asia And India
- The Prinsep family and Indian money
- The commencement of coinage in India
- Additional impacts from the North-West
- The relation between currency and religion
- The relation between currency and the market
- The opening out of the Indian currency practices
- The Islamic Lands
- Money power and religion
- Early Islam and money
- The three materials used to make money in the Islamic world
- Role of money in trade and daily life
- Paper currency
- The Roman World
- Currency in the Roman world
- Prosperity and fraud
- The empire
- Currency and inflation
- The later Roman Empire
- Continuity and change
- Africa and Oceania
- Culture of currency and salt
- 'Different' types of money
- Currency and ethnography
- Transformation of money
- Money as a social event
- Medieval Europe
- Money in Rome: c. AD 450-c. 750
- Penny age: c. 750-1150
- Byzantium
- Western Europe: c. 1150-1450
- The Early Modern Period
- Bullion
- Inflation
- Paper money
- Wrapping up
- The Modern Period
- Fiduciary money and convertibility
- America in the nineteenth century
- Paper money and revolution in the modern world
- Intellectual changes
- World wars and Keynesian economics
- The post-war world and monetarism
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History Of The Canadian Dollar
The history of money in Canada is distinctive in the sense that it offers one the exclusive perception to observe and analyze the growth of Canada's financial system as well as the development of Canada as a state. In effect, an account or history of the Canadian dollar chronicles the progression of money in Canada since the era before the country became a colony of different European nations to the contemporary times. A journey through this period focuses on a number of issues - the turmoil over currency during the initial phases of the French and British colonies in the region, the comprehensive transformations brought in by the Confederation in 1867, the influences of the World War I and World War II as well as the Great Depression during the 1930s.
