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Wampum and the Origins of American Money by Marc Shell (Hardback, 2013)

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Wampum has become a synym for money, and it is widely assumed that it served the same purposes as money among the Native Algonquians even after coming into contact with European colonists' money. But to equate wampum with money only matches one slippery term with ather, as money itself was quite ill-defined in North America for decades during its colonization. In this stimulating and intriguing book, Marc Shell illuminates the context in which wampum was used by describing how money circulated in the colonial period and the early history of the United States. Wampum itself, generally tubular beads made from clam or conch shells, was hardly a primitive version of a coin or dollar bill, as it represented to both Native Americans and colonial Europeans a unique medium through which language, art, culture, and even conflict were negotiated. With irrepressible wit and erudition, Shell interweaves wampum's multiform functions and reveals wampum's undeniable influence on the cultural, political, and ecomic foundations of North America. Published in Association with the American Numismatic Society, New York, New York.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Illinois Press
ISBN-10
0252033663
ISBN-13
9780252033667
eBay Product ID (ePID)
139976092

Product Key Features

Author
Marc Shell
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Regional History
Type
Textbook

Dimensions

Weight
558g
Height
254mm
Width
178mm

Additional Product Features

Place of Publication
Baltimore
Spine
18mm
Content Note
18 Color Photographs, 101 Black and White Photographs
Author Biography
Marc Shell is Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and professor of English at Harvard University. He is the author of many books, including The Economy of Literature and Money, Language, and Thought.
Date of Publication
02/10/2013
Country of Publication
United States
Genre
Regional History

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