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Unfading Light
Rich Fritzky poses five questions to forty-five individuals who have devoted much, if not all of their lives, to Abraham Lincoln. The individuals reveal what led them to him in the …
A Cultural History of Money
“Money is a matter of functions four: a medium, a measure, a standard, a store.” But money is always a medium of communication too, whether about price or about political …
Paid
Stories about objects left in the wake of transactions, from cryptocurrencies to leaf-imprinted banknotes to records kept with knotted string.Museums are full of the coins, notes, …
Recharting the Caribbean
If, as many cultural critics have asserted, the world is becoming more like the Caribbean, then the task of charting what we mean by "the Caribbean" is an urgent one. This careful …
Mutual Life, Limited
Why are people continually surprised to discover that money is "e;just"e; meaning? Mutual Life, Limited spends time among those who, in acknowledging the fictions of …
A Cultural History of Money in the Age of Empire
The nineteenth century was a time of intense monetization of social life: increasingly money became the only means of access to goods and services, especially in the new …
Money at the Margins
Mobile money, e-commerce, cash cards, retail credit cards, and more—as new monetary technologies become increasingly available, the global South has cautiously embraced these …
Slavery, Smallholding and Tourism
Accelerating Possession
Accelerating Possession is a groundbreaking collection of essays that examines how recent economic movements have revolutionized the relationship between property and personhood. …
Money at the Margins
Mobile money, e-commerce, cash cards, retail credit cards, and more-as new monetary technologies become increasingly available, the global South has cautiously embraced these …
A Cultural History of Money in the Medieval Age
Money provides a unique and illuminating perspective on the Middle Ages. In much of medieval Europe the central meaning of money was a prescribed unit of precious metal but in …