@article{1478601,
      recid = {1478601},
      author = {Mihm, Stephen,},
      title = {A Nation of Counterfeiters : Capitalists, Con Men, and the  Making of the United States /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478601},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674041011},
}