The book of the famous American sociologist - a representative of the cultural and historical trend in modern economic sociology - is recognized as the best modern research in the field of sociology of money and one of the most interesting books in the field of social sciences. Excellently written, filled with original and theoretically verified archival materials and illustrations, it shows the variety of roles that money played in the consumption and culture of the USA of the 19th - early 20th centuries. The main thesis of the book is to substantiate the phenomenon of the multiplicity of money, which is opposed to the more conventional idea of ​ ​ money as something homogeneous and universal.