The Invisible City: Monetary, Administrative and Popular Infrastructures in Asia and Europe, 1500-1900

by Frank Perlin

These five studies represent a detailed view of monetary production, forms of exchange and processes of state formation. They uncover the infrastructures of a common life that, the author argues, stretches across Asia and Europe and underlies all regional and local developments.

384 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1992