Screen LibrarySovereign of the market : the money question in early America /
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The University of Chicago Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Chicago, IL : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
American beginnings, 1500-1900
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| Carrier Form: | 311 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-303) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780226480336 022648033X |
| Index Number: | HG501 |
| CLC: | F827.129 |
| Call Number: | F827.129/S628 |
| Contents: | Introduction : the elusive sovereign -- Part I. Paper money and the problem of circulation in the colonial era. John Wise and the natural law of commerce -- William Douglass and the natural history of credit -- Part II. Commercial banking and the problem of representation in the Jacksonian era. William Leggett and the melodrama of the market -- Nicholas Biddle and the beauty of banking -- Part III. Big business and the problem of association in the Gilded Age and progressive era. Charles Macune and the currency of cooperation -- Charles Conant and the fund of trust -- Conclusion : the magician's glass. |