Blood and Money

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War, Slavery, Finance, and Empire

By David McNally

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David McNally challenges traditional stories of money's origins, revealing it as deeply entwined with violence, slavery, and war. This groundbreaking study argues that money is not merely a neutral medium but a concentrated social power that commands control over persons and their bodies, reshaping how we understand economic and social domination.
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Ideal for students and scholars of economics, history, political science, and Marxist theory, as well as activists interested in critiques of capitalism, social power, and the historical impact of money.

Blood and Money tells the story of money as a history of violence and human bondage.

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In most accounts of the origins of money, we are offered pleasant tales in which it arises to the mutual benefit of all parties as a result of barter. In this groundbreaking study, David McNally reveals the true story of money's origins and development as one of violence and human bondage.

Money's emergence and its transformation are shown to be intimately connected to the buying and selling of slaves and the waging of war. Blood and Money demonstrates the ways that money has "internalized" its violent origins, making clear that it has become a concentrated force of social power and domination.

Where Adam Smith observed that monetary wealth represents "command over labor," this paradigm shifting book amends his view to define money as comprising the command over persons and their bodies.

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Left Voice praises the book as a "devastating and brilliant" Marxist historical scholarship essential for anticapitalist activists. Noam Chomsky highlights its rich insights, showing money's roots in violence and oppression. Publishers Weekly commends McNally's powerful argument linking capitalism to greed and violence, calling the work a "searing academic treatise."

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ISBN: 9781642591330

Publisher: Haymarket Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 April 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Haymarket Books

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 320

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About the Author

David McNally is the Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston (UH) and Director of the Center for the Study of Capitalism. He is the author of Monsters of the Market, as well as six other books.

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