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Required Reading:
Michael Crawford, “Money and Exchange in the Roman World,” Journal of Roman Studies LX (1970). [JSTOR]
Georg Simmel, “The Metropolis and Mental Life” (on-line); try also to look at his “Money and Modern Culture” (1896), available in Frisby and Featherstone, eds., Simmel on Culture (1997) or his The Philosophy of Money .
Further Reading:
Charles Baudelaire, 'The Painter
of Modern Life,' (1863), selections on-line.
Walter Benjamin, 'Paris, Capital
of the Nineteenth Century,' in his Reflections or JSTOR .
Colin Campbell, The Romantic
Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Capitalism (1987).
A. Meadows and K. Shipton, eds, Money and its uses in the Ancient Greek World (2001).
G. M. Paul and Michael Ierardi, eds, Roman Coins and Public Life (1999).
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