History of Money

<b>If you're interested in the revolutionary transformation of the meaning and use of money this is <i>the</i> book to read!--Charles R. Schwab</b> <p/>Cultural anthropologist Jack Weatherford traces our relationship with money from primitive man's cowrie shells to the electronic cash card from the markets of Timbuktu to the New York Stock Exchange. <i>The History of Money</i> explores how money and the myriad forms of exchange have affected humanity and how they will continue to shape all aspects of our lives--economic political and personal. <p/><b>A fascinating book about the force that makes the world go round--the dollars pounds francs marks bahts ringits kwansas levs biplwelles yuans quetzales pa'angas ngultrums ouguiyas and other 200-odd brand names that collectively make up the mysterious thing we call money.--<i>Los Angeles Times</i></b>