Creation stories
From metal to money: producing the "just penny"
Commodity money as an extreme sport: flows, famines, debasements, and imitation pennies
The high politics of medieval money: strong coin, heavy taxes, and the English invention of public credit
The social stratigraphy of coin and credit in late medieval England
Priming the pump: the sovereign path towards paying for coin and circulating credit
Interests, rights, and the currency of public debt
Reinventing money: the beginning of bank currency
Re-theorizing money: the struggle over the modern imagination
The 18th century architecture of modern money
Epilogue to the 18th century: the gold standard in an era of inconvertibility
Conclusion: From blood to water.