Money shapes every aspect of modern life, but its journey from ancient commodities to digital currency spans thousands of years. The story of money reveals how human societies solved the fundamental ...

Now here is a book. It instructs and provokes and entertains. Even its mistakes are worthwhile. The secret of “The History of Money” is in the subtitle: “a story of humanity.” For David McWilliams, an ...

Why the story of money concerns us -- The moneyless civilizations -- Groping towards the money device -- The first money -- Money in Greece and Rome -- Gold and the rise and fall of civilization -- ...

Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s “The History of Money” is rich with surprising details about currency, then and now. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently ...

1: Mesopotamia, Greece and Egypt -- 2: The Roman World -- 3: Medieval Europe -- 4: The Islamic Lands -- 5: India and South-East Asia -- 6: China and the East -- 7: The Early Modern Period -- 8: Africa ...