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200 12$aA nation of counterfeiters $ecapitalists, con men, and the making of the United States /$fStephen Mihm
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2007
215   $a1 online resource (457 p. ) $cill., ports
300   $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
311   $a0-674-02657-8 
311   $a0-674-03244-6 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [379]-427) and index.
327   $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tILLUSTRATIONS -- $tPrologue: Confidence and the Currency -- $t1. Bordering on Alchemy -- $t2. Cogniac Street Capitalism -- $t3. The Bank Wars -- $t4. The Western Bankers -- $t5. Passing and Detecting -- $t6. Ghosts in the Machine -- $t7. Banking on the Nation -- $tEpilogue: Confidence in the Country -- $tABBREVIATIONS -- $tNOTES -- $tA NOTE ON SOURCES -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tINDEX
330   $aPrior 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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