A Nation of Counterfeiters : Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States / Stephen Mihm.

9780674041011

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]

©2007

English

In English.

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10.4159/9780674041011 doi

HG591 .M54 2009eb

332.1097309034

Prior to the Civil War, the United States did not have a single, national currency. Counterfeiters flourished amid this anarchy, putting vast quantities of bogus bills into circulation. Their success, Mihm reveals, is more than an entertaining tale of criminal enterprise: it is the story of the rise of a country defined by freewheeling capitalism and little government control. Mihm shows how eventually the older monetary system was dismantled, along with the counterfeit economy it sustained.

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