The history of money : from sandstone to cyberspace / Jack Weatherford.
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TextPublication details: New York : Three Rivers Press, c.1997.Description: xv, 288 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 9780609801727
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"Originally published in hardcover by Crown Publishers, Inc. in 1997."--T.p. verso.
Index : p. 283-288.
Bibliography : p. 275-281.
Cannibals, chocolate, and cash -- 2. The fifth element -- 3. The premature death of money -- 4. Knights of commerce -- 5. The Renaissance : new money for old art -- 6. The golden curse -- 7. The birth of the dollar -- 8. The devil's mint -- 9. Metric money -- 10. The gold bug -- 11. The yellow brick road -- 12. The golden playpen of politics -- 13. Wild money and the stealth tax -- 14. The cash ghetto -- 15. Interlude in plastic -- 16. The erotic life of electronic money -- 17. The art of currency terror -- 18. The age of money.
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