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Autore |
Mihm Stephen <1968-> |
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Titolo |
A nation of counterfeiters [[electronic resource] ] : capitalists, con men, and the making of the United States / / Stephen Mihm |
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Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (457 p. ) : ill., ports |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Bank notes - Forgeries - United States |
Banks and banking - United States |
Counterfeits and counterfeiting - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-427) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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