A Nation of Counterfeiters : Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States /
Mihm, Stephen
A Nation of Counterfeiters : Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States / Stephen Mihm. - 1 online resource
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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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674032446 9780674041011
10.4159/9780674041011 doi
Bank notes--Forgeries--United States.
Banks and banking--United States.
Counterfeits and counterfeiting--United States.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
HG591 / .M54 2009eb
332.1097309034
A Nation of Counterfeiters : Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States / Stephen Mihm. - 1 online resource
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674032446 9780674041011
10.4159/9780674041011 doi
Bank notes--Forgeries--United States.
Banks and banking--United States.
Counterfeits and counterfeiting--United States.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
HG591 / .M54 2009eb
332.1097309034