

Blood and Money
War, Slavery, Finance, and Empire
Author: David McNally
Narrator: Tim Getman
Unabridged: 11 hr 59 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 09/01/2020
Author: David McNally
Narrator: Tim Getman
Unabridged: 11 hr 59 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 09/01/2020
David McNally is the Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston and director of the Center for the Study of Capitalism. McNally is the author of seven books including Global Slump.
This book entertains while it instructs -- and it is instructive. I learned so much about the commodity form and money, about alienation and monetization. McNally covers a global history of money with depth and clarity, and he does it in under 250 pages. After reading this work, I am looking forward......more
This book analyzes the entanglements of money and slavery and their role in the rise of capitalism. Very instructive. Loved the literary analyses of the great epics as texts that depict the turn towards a different political economy and a different regime of accumulation.......more
Although difficult to read at times, this book delves deep into the history of money and our relations to it.......more
McNally's book follows the thread of currency to credit along the human cost of disenfranchisement, enclosure, and more especially of slavery. A thorough book with excellent notes, McNally writes a strong history worthwhile for anyone thinking about possible futures.......more
Die Zusammenhänge zwischen Kapitalismus und Sklaverei sind in vielen Bücher dargestellt und eigentlich kann man dazu nicht genug schreiben. Die essentielle Komponente wie unser heutiges Geldsystem funktioniert und wieso das auch mit der Sklaverei zusammenhängt lässt sich hier sehr gut verstehen. Bürge......more
“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.” Noam Chomsky
“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.” Publishers Weekly
“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.” Richard D. Wolff, author of Democracy at Work
“Blood and Money 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.” Jairus Banaji, author of A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism