The Politics of Money in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Colonial expansion, enslavement and the death penalty constituted integral ingredients in the new monetary culture emerging in the early modern Atlantic world. Professor of History Carl Wennerlind will discuss the issues that formed the complex political reality of early modern money: the desperate search for additional silver to solve England’s scarcity of money problem, the use of future profits from the African slave trade to support public credit, the role of Isaac Newton in putting counterfeiters to death in order to protect the Financial Revolution and the clash of monetary civilizations in the North American colonies.

This event will be held at PicNic Cafe (2665 Broadway btw. 101st & 102nd Sts.), 212-222-8222.