A Nation of Counterfeiters : Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States /

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Prior to the Civil War, the United States did not have a single, national currency. Counterfeiters flourished amid this anarchy, putting vast quantities of bogus bills into circulation. Their success, Mihm reveals, is more than an entertaining tale of criminal enterprise: it is the story of the rise...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mihm, Stephen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Temas:
Bank notes > Forgeries > United States.
Banks and banking > United States.
Counterfeits and counterfeiting > United States.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • Prologue: Confidence and the Currency
  • 1. Bordering on Alchemy
  • 2. Cogniac Street Capitalism
  • 3. The Bank Wars
  • 4. The Western Bankers
  • 5. Passing and Detecting
  • 6. Ghosts in the Machine
  • 7. Banking on the Nation
  • Epilogue: Confidence in the Country
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • NOTES
  • A NOTE ON SOURCES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INDEX

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