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Wampum and the Origins of American Money

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Wampum has turn out to be a synonym for money, and it is widely assumed that it served the same purposes as money some of the Native Algonquians even after coming into contact with European colonists’ money. But to equate wampum with money only matches one slippery term with every other, as money itself used to be rather in poor health-defined in North The us for decades throughout its colonization.
In this stimulating and intriguing book, Marc Shell illuminates the context in which wampum used to be used by describing how money circulated in the colonial period and the early history of the USA.
 
Wampum itself, in most cases tubular beads made from clam or conch shells, used to be 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 The us.

Published in Association with the American Numismatic Society, New York, New York.

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