Bank Notes and Shinplasters : : The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic / / Joshua R. Greenberg.
The colorful history of paper money before the Civil WarBefore Civil War greenbacks and a national bank network established a uniform federal currency in the United States, the proliferation of loosely regulated banks saturated the early American republic with upwards of 10,000 unique and legal bank...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Series: | American Business, Politics, and Society
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 28 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction. From Madison to Monroe
- PART I. CIRCULATION
- 1. Passing the Buck
- 2. Face-to-Face Value
- PART II. MATERIAL CULTURE
- 3. Dollars and Senses
- 4. Bank Notes and Queries
- PART III. POLITICAL ECONOMY
- 5. Getting Money into Politics
- 6. Legal Tender Mercies
- Epilogue. We Don’t Need No Monetary Education
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments