Machine generated contents note: pt. I Theories -- 1.Carl Menger and the exchange theory of money -- 2.The `state' or `chartalist' theory of money -- pt. II Ancient monies -- 3.Money in the ancient Near East: the `beginnings' -- 4.Money in archaic Greece: evidence from Homeric epic -- 5.The religious origins of money in `Homeric society' -- 6.`The value of a man': wergeld, accounting and archaic law -- 7.Coinage and money in classical Greece -- pt. III Modern monies -- 8.Monetization in colonial contexts: famine, class and markets in `development' strategies -- 9.The moral economy of parallel currencies: the case of local exchange trading systems.