TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mihm,Stephen
TI  - A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States 
SN  - 9780674032446
AV  - HG591 .M54 2009eb
U1  - 332.1097309034 22
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Bank notes
KW  - Forgeries
KW  - United States
KW  - Banks and banking
KW  - Counterfeits and counterfeiting
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
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