Requirements for class presentations on Tuesday, 6 March 2007:
Please come to class prepared to give a presentation on one of the articles listed below. Your presentation should be five to eight minutes long, and in it you should do the following: summarize the article's key points in a clear and concise fashion; highlight the article's strengths and weaknesses; situate the article's claims with reference to other relevant readings. You should also be prepared to answer questions about the article and its author. Part of your grade for this presentation will be based on the liveliness (and intellectual merit) of the discussion that follows it. Your grade for this presentation will be 10% of your final grade.

T. H. Breen and Timothy Hall, "Structuring Provincial Imagination: The Rhetoric and Experience of Social Change in Eighteenth-Century New England," American Historical Review 103: 5 (Dec. 1998), 1411-1439 -- despite its title, this article is largely about money and religion in colonial New England.
Virginia R. Dominguez, "Representing Value and the Value of Representation: A Different Look at Money," Cultural Anthropology 5:1 (1990), 16-44 -- about hyper-inflation and the use of multiple currencies in Israel in the 1970s-1980s.
C. A. Gregory, "Cowries and Conquest: Towards a Subalternate Quality Theory of Money," Comparative Studies in Society and History 38:2 (April 1996), 195-217.
Randall McGowen, "The Bank of England and the Policing of Forgery, 1797-1821," Past and Present 186 (Feb. 2005), 81-116.
Alaina Lemon, "'Your Eyes are Green like Dollars': Counterfeit Cash, National Substance and Currency Apartheid in 1990s Russia," Cultural Anthropology 13:1 (Feb. 1998), 22-55.
Jotham Parsons, "Money and Sovereignty in Early Modern France," Journal of the History of Ideas 62:1 (2001), 59-79.
Angela Redish, "Why was Specie Scarce in Colonial Economies? An Analysis of the Canadian Currency, 1796-1830," Journal of Economic History 44:3 (Sept. 1984), 713-728.
Douglas Rogers, "Moonshine, Money, and the Politics of Liquidity in Rural Russia," American Ethnologist 32:1 (Feb. 2005), 63-81.
Arthur Rolnick and Warren Weber, "New Evidence on the Free Banking Era," American Economic Review (1983), 1080-1091.
Mahir Saul, "Money in Colonial Transition: Cowries and Francs in West Africa," American Anthropologist 106:1 (March 2004), 71-84.