Christine Desan: 1 book
Making Money
Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Money travels the modern world in disguise. It looks like a convention of human exchange - a commodity like gold or a medium like language. But its history reveals that money is a very different matter. It is an institution engineered by political communities to mark and mobilize resources. As societies...
