03117nam 2200709Ia 450 991045539590332120200520144314.00-674-04101-110.4159/9780674041011(CKB)1000000000787172(StDuBDS)AH23050805(SSID)ssj0000208243(PQKBManifestationID)11201323(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000208243(PQKBWorkID)10239910(PQKB)11320638(MiAaPQ)EBC3300497(DE-B1597)457707(OCoLC)1013954660(OCoLC)1029810300(OCoLC)1032676789(OCoLC)1037970249(OCoLC)1041973791(OCoLC)1046621023(OCoLC)1047008898(OCoLC)651737194(OCoLC)979739887(DE-B1597)9780674041011(Au-PeEL)EBL3300497(CaPaEBR)ebr10318491(OCoLC)436084658(EXLCZ)99100000000078717220070319d2007 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrA nation of counterfeiters[electronic resource] capitalists, con men, and the making of the United States /Stephen MihmCambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press20071 online resource (457 p. ) ill., portsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-674-03244-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-427) and index.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 -- INDEXPrior 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.Bank notesForgeriesUnited StatesBanks and bankingUnited StatesCounterfeits and counterfeitingUnited StatesElectronic books.Bank notesForgeriesBanks and bankingCounterfeits and counterfeiting332.1097309034Mihm Stephen1968-732660MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455395903321A nation of counterfeiters2451029UNINA