Other People's Money: How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic 1421421755, 9781421421759

Money and Banking in Canada 9780773560536

This collection of original documents, contemporary commentaries and articles outlines the major developments in the his

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Peoples of Other Lands

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Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic 9780812297140

In Bank Notes and Shinplasters, Joshua R. Greenberg shows how Americans accumulated and wielded monetary information in

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The Crisis in American Banking 9780814784983

The U.S. banking system, its regulation and deregulation, and especially its deposit guarantees, continue to pose comple

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Money, Power, and the People: The American Struggle to Make Banking Democratic 9780226636474

Banks and bankers are hardly the most beloved institutions and people in this country. With its corruptive influence on

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American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis 9780300157376

During the years from 1789 to 1801, the republican political institutions forged by the American Constitution were put t

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Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic 9780812200478

"The world of the Founding Fathers was also a postrevolutionary society, in whose streets people of all social clas

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Faith in Markets: Christian Capitalism in the Early American Republic 9780231191104, 9780231191111, 9780231549257

Faith in Markets offers a new account of the interplay between religion and capitalism in nineteenth-century American hi

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Mere Equals: The Paradox of Educated Women in the Early American Republic 9780801465888

In Mere Equals, Lucia McMahon narrates a story about how a generation of young women who enjoyed access to new education

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Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds: Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic 9780804799638

Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds considers the scientific controversy about the cause of yellow fever to examine and c

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