PublishedHarvard University Press, February 2015 |
ISBN9780674047037 |
FormatHardcover, 348 pages |
Rebecca L. Spang, who revolutionized our understanding of the restaurant, has written a new history of money. It is also a new history of the French Revolution, with economics at its heart. In her telling, radicalization was driven by an ever-widening gap between political ideals--including "freedom of money"--and the harsh realities of daily life.
