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Wampum and the Origins of American Money (Paperback)
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Wampum and the Origins of American Money (Paperback)
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Wampum has become a synonym 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 another, 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 economic foundations of
North America. Published in Association with the American
Numismatic Society, New York, New York.
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