Other People's Money : How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic /

"Pieces of paper that claimed to be good for two dollars upon redemption at a distant bank. Foreign coins that fluctuated in value from town to town. Stock certificates issued by turnpike or canal companies--worth something... or perhaps nothing. IOUs from farmers or tradesmen, passed around by...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Murphy, Sharon Ann, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Kreditmarkt
Bank
Money.
Banks and banking, American.
Banks and banking.
Banques americaines > Histoire.
Banques > États-Unis > Histoire.
Money > United States > History.
Banks and banking, American > History.
Banks and banking > United States > History.
USA
United States.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1783-1865.
United States > History > 1783-1865.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: How the bank war worked
  • How money worked : Revolutionary America
  • How banks worked : the early Republic
  • How panics worked : the era of the bank war
  • Experiments in money and banking : Antebellum America
  • How Civil War finance worked : the creation of the national banking system
  • Conclusion: Andrew Jackson, Other People's Money, and the creation of the Federal Reserve
  • Epilogue: Why is Andrew Jackson [crossed out] Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill?

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