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

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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Hogeland, William
Format: Publication officielle Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2012.
Édition:First edition.
Collection:Discovering America series ; 5.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.