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Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France: Currency, Culture, and the State by Jotham Parsons (review)

before the increased immigration of the twentieth century. It questions the Anglocentric approach to teaching British history and appeals to us twenty-first century readers to recognize that the idea of a historically homogenous British people glosses over deep cultural complexities and fosters a ‘‘particular form of historical ignorance and breeding ground for racism’’ (515). The implicit argument here is that recognizing the cultural or multiethnic differences described in these travellers’ accounts could ease current tensions surrounding immigration, race and what it means to be ‘‘British.’’ Whether or not one agrees, Cramsie’s work is a welcome challenge to British scholars to recognize — and not suppress — the ‘‘multilayered sense of cultural complexity and identity’’ experienced by early modern Britons (15).