Founding finance : how debt, speculation, foreclosures, protests, and crackdowns made us a nation /

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Recent movements such as the Tea Party and anti-tax "constitutional conservatism" lay claim to the finance and taxation ideas of America's founders, but how much do we really know about the dramatic clashes over finance and economics that marked the founding of America? Dissenting fro...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hogeland, William
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2012.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Discovering America series ; 5.
Subjects:
United States. > Constitutional Convention > (1787)
Constitutional Convention (United States : 1787)
1789-1801
Finance, Public > United States > History > 1789-1801.
Debts, Public > United States > History > 1789-1801.
Finances publiques > États-Unis > Histoire > 1789-1801.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Public Finance.
Debts, Public.
Finance, Public.
Politics and government
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General
United States > Politics and government > 1789-1797.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1789-1797.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The founders, finance, and us
  • Riot, regulate, occupy (1765/1771)
  • Two revolutions? (1771/1776)
  • Conceived in war debt (1776/1783)
  • History on the verge of a nervous breakdown (1913/2012)
  • An existential interpretation of the constitution of the United States (1783/1789)
  • It's Hamilton's America
  • : we just live in it (1789/1791)
  • Crackdown and lockup : Cincinnatus, the whiskey rebels, and the end of Thomas Paine (1791/)
  • Gather your armies
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliographic essays
  • References
  • Index.

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