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Autore: | Mihm Stephen <1968-> |
Titolo: | A nation of counterfeiters [[electronic resource] ] : capitalists, con men, and the making of the United States / / Stephen Mihm |
Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (457 p. ) : ill., ports |
Disciplina: | 332.1097309034 |
Soggetto topico: | Bank notes - Forgeries - United States |
Banks and banking - United States | |
Counterfeits and counterfeiting - United States | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-427) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | A nation of counterfeiters |
ISBN: | 0-674-04101-1 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910455395903321 |
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