The University of North Carolina Press

380 pp., 6.125 x 9.25

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Paper

ISBN  978-0-8078-4367-3

Published: February 1992

Money and Exchange in Europe and America, 1600-1775

A Handbook

By John J. McCusker

The handbook explains how money and exchange functioned as elements of the American economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; it also provides sufficient technical and statistical information to allow the reader to convert a sum recorded in one currency into its equivalent in another. McCusker combines this with a compilation of exhaustive tables that give the commercial rate of exchange between London and the major cities of Europe and the British colonies.

About the Author

John J. McCusker, currently the Halsell Distinguished Professor of American History and Professor of Economics at Trinity University, is the author of several books, including Rum and the American Revolution and How Much Is That In Real Money?, and coauthor of The Economy of British America, 1607-1789.