A Nation of Counterfeiters : Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States / Stephen Mihm.
Mihm, Stephen, author.
2009
HG591 .M54 2009eb
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Title A Nation of Counterfeiters : Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States / Stephen Mihm.
Author Mihm, Stephen, author.
ISBN 9780674041011
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674041011
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright ©2007
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674041011 doi
Call Number HG591 .M54 2009eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 332.1097309034
Summary 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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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
Prologue: Confidence and the Currency
1. Bordering on Alchemy
2. Cogniac Street Capitalism
3. The Bank Wars
4. The Western Bankers
5. Passing and Detecting
6. Ghosts in the Machine
7. Banking on the Nation
Epilogue: Confidence in the Country
ABBREVIATIONS
NOTES
A NOTE ON SOURCES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX

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