Isbn: 9783565078622 - crazy history facts about money: from shells to digital dreams (revised edition) (17 risultati)

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Start in the smoky huts where Mesopotamians scratched debt tallies on wet clay, turning 'owe you one goat' into the first IOUs that glued tribes tighter than blood oaths. Lydia's King Croesus didn't just get rich-he minted the world's debut gold-silver coins around 600 BC, sparking a frenzy that rolled empires from Athens bazaars to Rome's clipped denarii, where emperors debased the metal till inflation bit like a bad hangover. These weren't shiny saviors; they were the grease on chariot wheels, fueling pharaohs' pyramid crews and Viking hoards buried under rune stones, proving even gods got greedy when the mints hummed.Fast to the Middle Ages' coin-clipping chaos: Templars moonlighting as Europe's first bankers, funneling crusader loot from Jerusalem to Paris vaults till Philip the Fair torched them for the till. Tulips in 1630s Holland weren't flowers-they were futures contracts gone feral, Dutch burghers betting homesteads on bulbs that wilted to weeds overnight, a bubble pop that echoed through South Sea scams and Wall Street whispers. Usury bans from popes and mullahs pushed Jews into the money-lending shadows, birthing family dynasties like the Rothschilds, who whispered wars won on war bonds slipped across salon soirees.By the 20th century, it got weird: FDR's gold confiscation in '33, yanking rings from grannies' fingers to stuff Fort Knox, or Bretton Woods' dollar peg that held till '71, when the world woke up to fiat funny money printed like parade confetti. Enter Bitcoin's Satoshi ghost in '08, coding a ledger that laughs at central banks, turning pizza payments into pirate gold. This book's no ledger-it's a barstool yarn of booms and busts, reminding you every wallet's a graveyard of forgotten fortunes.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Crazy History Facts About Money | From Shells to Digital Dreams (Revised Edition) | Auke de Haan | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | epubli | EAN 9783565078622 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Bookmundo, Delftsestraat 33, 3013 AE ROTTERDAM, NIEDERLANDE, info[at]bookmundo[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Start in the smoky huts where Mesopotamians scratched debt tallies on wet clay, turning 'owe you one goat' into the first IOUs that glued tribes tighter than blood oaths. Lydia's King Croesus didn't just get rich-he minted the world's debut gold-silver coins around 600 BC, sparking a frenzy that rolled empires from Athens bazaars to Rome's clipped denarii, where emperors debased the metal till inflation bit like a bad hangover. These weren't shiny saviors; they were the grease on chariot wheels, fueling pharaohs' pyramid crews and Viking hoards buried under rune stones, proving even gods got greedy when the mints hummed.Fast to the Middle Ages' coin-clipping chaos: Templars moonlighting as Europe's first bankers, funneling crusader loot from Jerusalem to Paris vaults till Philip the Fair torched them for the till. Tulips in 1630s Holland weren't flowers-they were futures contracts gone feral, Dutch burghers betting homesteads on bulbs that wilted to weeds overnight, a bubble pop that echoed through South Sea scams and Wall Street whispers. Usury bans from popes and mullahs pushed Jews into the money-lending shadows, birthing family dynasties like the Rothschilds, who whispered wars won on war bonds slipped across salon soirees.By the 20th century, it got weird: FDR's gold confiscation in '33, yanking rings from grannies' fingers to stuff Fort Knox, or Bretton Woods' dollar peg that held till '71, when the world woke up to fiat funny money printed like parade confetti. Enter Bitcoin's Satoshi ghost in '08, coding a ledger that laughs at central banks, turning pizza payments into pirate gold. This book's no ledger-it's a barstool yarn of booms and busts, reminding you every wallet's a graveyard of forgotten fortunes. 208 pp. Englisch.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What if salt was once worth more than gold, cocoa beans paid taxes, and a single tulip bulb could buy a mansion?Crazy History Facts About Money uncovers the wild, weird, and often unbelievable stories behind the cash that has shaped human civilization for thousands of years. From prehistoric shells to pirate treasures, from witch-trial fines to revolutionary currencies that became worthless overnight, this captivating journey reveals how money has started wars, toppled empires, sparked manias, and changed lives in the strangest ways imaginable.Travel back to the dusty markets of ancient Mesopotamia where the first receipts were carved in clay, stand in awe as Lydia mints the world's earliest coins, and watch Chinese merchants gamble on the radical new idea of paper notes centuries before Europe caught on. Discover African kingdoms where gold dust flowed like rivers, Aztec tribute counted in feathers and cocoa, and colonial outposts forced to use wampum beads when coins ran short.The adventure continues through debased Roman silver that triggered inflation across an empire, medieval lords demanding rent in eels or peppercorns, and Renaissance bankers inventing modern finance amid whispers of dark conspiracies. Relive the frenzy of Tulip Mania, the despair of hyperinflated Continentals during the American Revolution, the glittering chaos of global gold rushes, and the shadowy financial networks that fueled the transatlantic slave trade.Filled with jaw-dropping anecdotes, forgotten scandals, and larger-than-life characters, Crazy History Facts About Money transforms dry economic history into a rollercoaster of human ambition, ingenuity, and folly. Perfect for fans of quirky nonfiction hits like A History of the World in 100 Objects, Salt: A World History, or Bill Bryson's At Home, this book delivers bite-sized chapters bursting with surprises that make the past feel vividly, outrageously alive.Whether you love odd facts to share at parties, crave entertaining lessons on wealth and power, or simply wonder why money makes the world spin the way it does, these pages will forever change how you see every coin, bill, and digital ping in your pocket. Salt worth its weight in gold. Tulips that bankrupted nations. Cocoa beans as legal tender. Dive into the wildest, weirdest, and most astonishing true stories of money through the ages. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -What if money was once live beetles worn as jewelry Or that Romans shaved gold off coins to fund wars, accidentally inventing inflation The history of money is far stranger than any economics textbook will tell you. This book collects 5,000 years of the most bizarre, shocking, and genuinely unbelievable true stories about how humans have traded, hoarded, counterfeited, and lost their minds over currency.From Aztecs stuffing cocoa beans with clay to create counterfeits to Chinese emperors printing money so recklessly that citizens wallpapered their homes with it, every chapter delivers something hard to believe. Pirates ran democratic ships with health insurance while hoarding plundered silver. Tulip bulbs once traded for ten times a worker's annual salary before crashing spectacularly. Cowrie shells became currency in the slave trade at a horrifying exchange rate. Napoleon flooded Europe with fake banknotes as a weapon of war.Five thousand years of greed, genius, and spectacular failure told through the strangest true stories in financial history. 208 pp. Englisch.…