The greenback : paper money and American culture / Heinz Tschachler.

• Making sense of the buck : cultural representations and signifying practices -- The production of the paper dollar -- Designing the paper dollar : articulating production and consumption -- The paper dollar and the national symbolic -- The cultural consumption of the paper dollar -- Cultural regulation : paper dollars and the conduct of life.

• "This text explores the social, cultural and historical contexts of paper money. Predicated on the assumption that paper bills speak to us through the use of symbols--letters, verbal and visual elements, as well as symbols of civic values--this book examines what has been conveyed to Americans via their currency from Colonial times through the present day"--Provided by publisher. 

Ämnesord

Valutasystem  (sao)

Pengar  (sao)

Sedlar  (sao)

Valuta  (sao)

Paper money  -- United States -- History. (LCSH)

Dollar, American  -- History. (LCSH)

Paper money.  (fast)

Money  (LCSH)

Bank notes  (LCSH)

Förenta staterna  (sao)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Qaea Penningväsen

Klassifikation

HG591 (LCC)

332.4/0440973 (DDC)

Qaea (kssb/8)