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<div class="title">Blood and Money</div>
<div class="subtitle">War, Slavery, Finance, and Empire</div>
<div class="bylines"> <span>by David McNally</span> </div>
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<p><em>Blood and Money</em> tells the story of money as a
history of violence and human bondage.</p>
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<p>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. <i>Blood and Money</i> 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.</p>
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<p>"This fascinating and informative study, rich in novel
insights, treats money not as an abstraction from its
social base but as deeply embedded in its essential
functions and origins in brutal violence and harsh
oppression." <strong>—Noam Chomsky<br>
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</strong>"McNally casts an unsparing light on the origins
of money—and capitalism itself—in this scathing,
Marxist-informed account.... McNally builds a powerful,
richly documented argument that unchecked capitalism
prioritizes greed and violence over compassion....[T]his
searing academic treatise makes a convincing case." <strong>—<em>Publishers
Weekly<br>
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</em></strong>"David McNally's new book makes an
important contribution to the growing critical literature
on such basic components of contemporary capitalism as
markets and money. His historical perspective makes the
contribution especially insightful." <strong>—Richard D.
Wolff, Democracy at Work</strong><br>
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"<em>Blood and Money</em> is an ambitious and challenging
account of the nexus between money, war, slavery and,
eventually, capitalism—across vast swathes of history. At
the heart of the book lies a crucial argument about the
pivotal role of war finance in the emergence of modern
banking, carefully laid out both in McNally’s superlative
chapter on the early decades of the Bank of England and in
the condensed and fascinating synopsis of American
capitalism with which the study concludes. These chapters
alone should make the book indispensable reading for
anyone seriously interested in the longer-term sources of
modern capitalism as we know it today." <strong>—Jairus
Banaji, SOAS, University of London</strong></p>
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