A few places to start:
A. Appadurai, ed., The Social Life of Things (1986).
J. K. Galbraith, Money: Whence it Came, where it Went (1975).
D. McCloskey, The Rhetoric of Economics (1985).
W. Reddy, Money and Liberty in Modern Europe: A Critique of Historical Understanding (1987).
M. Shell, Money, Language, and Thought: Literary and Philosophical Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era (1982).