Nation of Counterfeiters Capitalists, con Men, and the Making of the United States

Name: Nation of Counterfeiters Capitalists, con Men, and the Making of the United States
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ISBN: 9780674032446

ISBN-10: 0674032446

ISBN-13: 9780674032446

Edition: 2007

Authors: Stephen Mihm

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Listen to a short interview with Stephen Mihm Host: Chris Gondek Producer: Heron & CraneFew of us question the slips of green paper that come and go in our purses, pockets, and wallets. Yet confidence in the money supply is a recent phenomenon: prior to the Civil War, the United States did not have a single, national currency. Instead, countless banks issued paper money in a bewildering variety of denominations and designs--more than ten thousand different kinds by 1860. Counterfeiters flourished amid this anarchy, putting vast quantities of bogus bills into circulation.Their success, Stephen Mihm reveals, is more than an entertaining tale of criminal enterprise: it is the story of the rise…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 5/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.15" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English



Prologue: Confidence and the Currency



Bordering on Alchemy



Cogniac Street Capitalism



The Bank Wars



The Western Bankers



Passing and Detecting



Ghosts in the Machine



Banking on the Nation


Epilogue: Confidence in the Country


Abbreviations


Notes


A Note on Sources


Acknowledgments


Index