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CENTRAL BANKS RISE Bank of England, Bank of Amsterdam, and the Birth of National Currencies: The Money Chronicles, Volume V
Paperback
Series: The Money Chronicles, Book 5
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 20 2026
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What actually makes a nation's money - and its promises - trustworthy?
Central Banks Rise is Volume V of The Money Chronicles, Robert F. Geissler's ongoing history of money from its earliest origins to the modern era. This volume picks up directly where Volume IV left off: Habsburg Spain, drowning in silver, still couldn't stop defaulting. This book explains why two much poorer states - the Dutch Republic and England - succeeded where Spain failed.
Inside, you'll discover:
- How the Amsterdam Wisselbank's bank money solved the chaos of a currency system flooded with clipped, debased, and counterfeit coin
- How the VOC, the world's first modern joint-stock corporation, and Amsterdam's bourse turned the Dutch Republic into Europe's financial superpower
- Why England's pre-1688 state finance was a story of goldsmith-bankers, royal default, and chronic crisis
- How the Glorious Revolution's constitutional settlement - Parliament, not the king alone, in charge of the purse - made English government debt credible for the first time
- The founding of the Bank of England in 1694, and how funded debt let England borrow more cheaply than France despite France's far larger economy
- John Law's Mississippi scheme and England's South Sea Bubble - two 1720 catastrophes that show exactly what happens when credit outruns reality, and why England's institutions survived while France's didn't
Written in the same clear, synthesis-driven style as the first four volumes in the series, Central Banks Rise is for readers of economic history, financial history, and anyone who wants to understand why trust, not treasure, built the modern financial world.
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