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This history of the first German common currency in the sixteenth century is a remarkable achievement. Silver Empire makes a very significant contribution to early modern European monetary history as well as to our understanding of the development of the Holy Roman Empire after the Reformation. * Joachim Whaley, University of Cambridge and author of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire *

This history of the first German common currency in the sixteenth century is a remarkable achievement. Silver Empire makes a very significant contribution to early modern European monetary history as well as to our understanding of the development of the Holy Roman Empire after the Reformation. * Joachim Whaley, University of Cambridge and author of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire * Oliver Volckart ... masterfully traces the political tug of war that unfolded in sixteenth-century ""Germany"" (what was then the core of the Holy Roman Empire), culminating in the successful creation of a common silver currency, the Reichsguldiner. * Victoria Gierok, Project Syndicate * The Silver Empire should be enjoyed for its historiographical grit and methodological elegance. * Michael Schlitz, Economic History Review *

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After receiving a PhD from Free University, Berlin, in 1995, Oliver Volckart worked as a research officer at the Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems in Jena and as a lecturer at Humboldt University, Berlin. He joined the Economic History Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2007. Volckart has specialised on premodern monetary history since the 1980s and on institutional economics and the history of political economy since the 1990s.

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