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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2023] Revolutionary Currencies: New Money and New States in the Early European Interwar Period
DESCRIPTION:The collapse of old empires and the founding of new states led to revolutionary changes in European currency regimes in the early 1920s. However, this phenomenon has received little historiographical attention on a transnational level. The panel aims to complement the histories of singular national economies and counter a Western-leaning narrative on economic history by focusing on Central and East Central Europe, as well as the former German colonial territories. In these regions, political and economic upheavals were closely intertwined and left their mark on the history of the respective currencies.
The panel interprets these new monetary orders in the context of the revolutionary situation, which often created new points of reference for national and economic sovereignty. Key monetary concepts changed, and economic thought found an entirely new foundation. This generated new economic "facts" that shaped perceptions and political agencies. A transnational perspective is needed because the fate of the revolutionary currencies in Central, East-Central, and Eastern Europe did not depend solely on national political frameworks. There was a remarkable parallelism of currency decline in Hungary, Poland, and Germany. Likewise, the years of 1922–1924 were a turning point in the European order, bringing an end to the imperial economic legacy.
Therefore, the discussants will consider trade flows, exchange rates, international politics, and cross-border violence. They will also focus on the ways in which people dealt with money, as monetary agency frequently escaped political assertiveness. The transition from German to British colonial currency in Tanzania, for example, was remarkably slow. The seemingly divergent development in Czechoslovakia, on the other hand, was complementary to the inflationary policies of its neighbors. Thus, a complex picture of entanglement and political agency emerges in a European perspective that transcends the methodological possibilities of "national" histories.









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