Download or read book The Early Paper Money of America written by Eric P. Newman and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated historical, statistical and descriptive compilation of data relating to American paper currency from its inception.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Colonial and Early American Coins written by Q. David Bowers and published by Whitman Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Currency of Empire written by Jonathan Barth and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas. The export-oriented mercantile economy promoted by the English Crown, Barth argues, directed the plan for colonization, the regulation of colonial commerce, and the politics of empire. The imperial project required an orderly flow of gold and silver, and thus England's colonial regime required stringent monetary regulation. As Barth shows, money was also a flash point for resistance; many colonists acutely resented their subordinate economic station, desiring for their local economies a robust, secure, and uniform money supply. This placed them immediately at odds with the mercantilist laws of the empire and precipitated an imperial crisis in the 1670s, a full century before the Declaration of Independence. The Currency of Empire examines what were a series of explosive political conflicts in the seventeenth century and demonstrates how the struggle over monetary policy prefigured the patriot reaction to the Stamp Act and so-called Intolerable Acts on the eve of American independence. Thanks to generous funding from the Arizona State University and George Mason University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.
Download or read book A History of American Currency written by Sumner Sumner and published by Ludwig von Mises Institute. This book was released on 2007 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early American Currency written by George Leslie McKay and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Other People s Money written by Sharon Ann Murphy and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the contentious world of nineteenth-century banking shaped the United States. Pieces of paper that claimed to be good for two dollars upon redemption at a distant bank. Foreign coins that fluctuated in value from town to town. Stock certificates issued by turnpike or canal companies—worth something . . . or perhaps nothing. IOUs from farmers or tradesmen, passed around by people who could not know the person who first issued them. Money and banking in antebellum America offered a glaring example of free-market capitalism run amok—unregulated, exuberant, and heading pell-mell toward the next “panic” of burst bubbles and hard times. In Other People’s Money, Sharon Ann Murphy explains how banking and money worked before the federal government, spurred by the chaos of the Civil War, created the national system of US paper currency. Murphy traces the evolution of banking in America from the founding of the nation, when politicians debated the constitutionality of chartering a national bank, to Andrew Jackson’s role in the Bank War of the early 1830s, to the problems of financing a large-scale war. She reveals how, ultimately, the monetary and banking structures that emerged from the Civil War also provided the basis for our modern financial system, from its formation under the Federal Reserve in 1913 to the present. Touching on the significant role that numerous historical figures played in shaping American banking—including Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and Louis Brandeis—Other People’s Money is an engaging guide to the heated political fights that surrounded banking in early America as well as to the economic causes and consequences of the financial system that emerged from the turmoil. By helping readers understand the financial history of this period and the way banking shaped the society in which ordinary Americans lived and worked, this book broadens and deepens our knowledge of the Early American Republic.
Download or read book Early American Currency written by George Leslie McKay and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Early Paper Money of America written by Eric P. Newman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete historical and descriptive data on early American, colonial, state, and continental paper currency from 1686 to 1800. Eric P. Newman has completely revised and updated this popular book, which also includes current values of all available bills.
Download or read book Early American Paper Money Collection written by and published by . This book was released on 1746 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Early American Paper Money Collection contains bills issued primarily by the Continental Congress and the original thirteen colonies. The denominations range from six and a quarter cents to a hundred dollars and three pence to five pounds. Includes random examples of Continental currency and bills issued by Bank of Toronto, Bank of the United States, Confederate States of America, Connecticut, Corporation of Washington, Delaware, City of Wilmington, Delaware Bridge Company, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, City of New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Farmers Bank of Reading, Rhode Island, South Carolina, City of Charleston, and Virginia in addition to miscellany relating to paper money.
Download or read book Sovereign of the Market written by Jeffrey Sklansky and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The elusive sovereign -- Paper money and the problem of circulation in the colonial era -- John Wise and the natural law of commerce -- William Douglass and the natural history of credit -- Commercial banking and the problem of representation in the Jacksonian era -- William Leggett and the melodrama of the market -- Nicholas Biddle and the beauty of banking -- Big business and the problem of association in the Gilded Age and progressive era -- Charles Macune and the currency of cooperation -- Charles Conant and the fund of trust -- Conclusion: the magician's glass
Download or read book Money of the American Colonies and Confederation written by Philip L. Mossman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: .
Download or read book History of Money written by Glyn Davies and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 1069 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the central importance of money in the ordinary business of the life of different people throughout the ages from ancient times to the present day. It includes the Barings crisis and the report by the Bank of England on Barings Bank; information on the state of Japanese banking; and, the changes in the financial scene in the US.
Download or read book Studies on Money in Early America written by Eric P. Newman and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Money and Exchange in Europe and America 1600 1775 written by John J. McCusker and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1992-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Money and Exchange in Europe and America, 1600-1775: A Handbook
Download or read book The Economy of Colonial America written by Edwin J. Perkins and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The colonial era is especially appealing in regard to economic history because it represents a study in contrasts. The economy was exceptionally dynamic in terms of population growth and geographical expansion. No major famines, epidemics, or extended wars intervened to reverse, or even slow down appreciably, the tide of vigorous economic growth. Despite this broad expansion, however, the fundamental patterns of economic behavior remained fairly constant. The members of the main occupational groups - farmers, planters, merchants, artisans, indentured servants, and slaves - performed similar functions throughout the period. In comparison with the vast number of institutional innovations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, structural change in the colonial economy evolved gradually. With the exception of the adoption of the pernicious system of black slavery, few new economic institutions and no revolutionary new technologies emerged to disrupt the stability of this remarkably affluent commercial-agricultural society. Living standards rose slowly but fairly steadily at a rate of 3 to 5 percent a decade after 1650. (Monetary sums are converted into 1980 dollars so that the figures will be relevant to modern readers.) For the most part, this book describes the economic life styles of free white society. The term "colonists" is virtually synonymous here with inhabitants of European origin. Thus, statements about very high living standards and the benefits of land ownership pertain only to whites. One chapter does focus exclusively, however, on indentured servants and slaves. This book represents the author's best judgment about the most important features of the colonial economy and their relationship to the general society and to the movement for independence. It should be a good starting point for all - undergraduate to scholar - interested in learning more about the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This popular study, lauded by professors and scholars alike, has been diligently revised to reflect the tremendous amount of new research conducted during the last decade, and now includes a totally new chapter on women in the economy. Presenting a great deal of up-to-date information in a concise and lively style, the book surveys the main aspects of the colonial economy: population and economic expansion; the six main occupational groups (family farmers, indentured servants, slaves, artisans, great planters, and merchants); women in the economy; domestic and imperial taxes; the colonial monetary system; living standards for the typical family
Download or read book The Early Paper Money of America written by Eric P. Newman and published by Krause Publications. This book was released on 2008-11-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features information available only to auction and dealer networks &break;&break;Responds to intense market demands, driven by collectors capitalizing on recent auctions involving distinguished collections &break;&break;Diverse audience: experienced collectors, history buffs, educators, and museum curators &break;&break;A recent surge in this paper money arena provides a ready-made audience for a new edition of this one-of-a-kind book. Top-dollar auctions are putting more Colonial American paper money into collectors' hands, creating a wealth of collectors seeking a new edition of the definitive guide - The Early Paper Money of America. This is the collector's best choice, because it: &break;&break;Offers 1,100+ detailed, high quality illustrations investors, history enthusiasts, re-enactment groups and educators can turn to identify issues &break;&break;Represents the most comprehensive guide to Colonial American paper money and early states issues &break;&break;Provides information not readily available to general paper money collectors &break;&break;This new edition continues a tradition of reliability collectors of early American paper money respect.
Download or read book Money and Exchange in Europe and America 1600 1775 written by John J. McCusker and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A paperback reprint of McCusker's still unsurpassed 1978 guide to exchange rates within the Atlantic world during the colonial era before the American Revolution. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
