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000470413 1001_ $$aShell, Marc.
000470413 24510 $$aWampum and the origins of American money /$$cMarc Shell.
000470413 260__ $$aUrbana, IL :$$bUniversity of Illinois Press,$$cc2013.
000470413 300__ $$axvi, 138 p., [8] p. of plates :$$bill. (some col.) ;$$c27 cm.
000470413 500__ $$aIncludes index.
000470413 520__ $$a"Wampum has become a synonym for money, and it is widely assumed that it served the same purposes as money among the Native Algonquians even after coming into contact with European colonists' money. But to equate wampum with money only matches one slippery term with another, as money itself was quite ill-defined in North America for decades during its colonization. Fledgling colonial currencies assimilated much more from Native American trading practices than they imposed on the locals, so much so that colonists regularly expressed fears of "becoming Indians" in their widespread use of paper money, a novel economic innovation adapted from wampum. In this stimulating and intriguing book, Marc Shell illuminates the context in which wampum was used by describing how money circulated in the colonial period and the early history of the United States. Wampum itself, generally tubular beads made from clam or conch shells, was hardly a primitive version of a coin or dollar bill, as it represented to both Native Americans and colonial Europeans a unique medium through which language, art, culture, and even conflict were negotiated. This wide-ranging exploration of economics, literature, and racial and ethnic imagery throughout American history is extensively illustrated with more than a hundred images of documents, artworks, and artifacts, including numerous depictions of Native Americans on paper money" -- from publisher's web site.
000470413 650_0 $$aWampum.
000470413 650_0 $$aIndians of North America$$xMoney.
000470413 650_0 $$aMoney$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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