The History of Money

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From primitive man''s cowrie shells to the el ectronic cash card, from the markets of Timbuktu to the New York Stock Exchange, The History of Money explores how money and the myriad forms of exchange have affected humanity. '

Jack Weatherfordis theNew York Timesbestselling author ofGenghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World,Indian Givers- How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World,The Secret History of the Mongol Queens,andThe History of Money, among other acclaimed books. A specialist in tribal peoples, he was for many years a professor of anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota and now divides his time between the United States and Mongolia.