Author: John Tyler Hodges
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Category : Bank notes
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Hodges' New Bank Note Safe-guard
Author: John Tyler Hodges
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bank notes
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bank notes
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Gold and Silver Coin Chart Manual Supplementary to the Journal of Finance and Bank Reporter, and Bank Note Safeguard. Containing the Largest Number of Fac-similes of Gold and Silver Coins, of Any Publication in the World
Author: Daniel M. Hodges
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Bank Notes and Shinplasters
Author: Joshua R. Greenberg
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812252241
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The colorful history of paper money before the Civil War Before Civil War greenbacks and a national bank network established a uniform federal currency in the United States, the proliferation of loosely regulated banks saturated the early American republic with upwards of 10,000 unique and legal bank notes. This number does not even include the plethora of counterfeit bills and the countless shinplasters of questionable legality issued by unregulated merchants, firms, and municipalities. Adding to the chaos was the idiosyncratic method for negotiating their value, an often manipulative face-to-face discussion consciously separated from any haggling over the price of the work, goods, or services for sale. In Bank Notes and Shinplasters, Joshua R. Greenberg shows how ordinary Americans accumulated and wielded the financial knowledge required to navigate interpersonal bank note transactions. Locating evidence of Americans grappling with their money in fiction, correspondence, newspapers, printed ephemera, government documents, legal cases, and even on the money itself, Greenberg argues Americans, by necessity, developed the ability to analyze the value of paper financial instruments, assess the strength of banking institutions, and even track legislative changes that might alter the rules of currency circulation. In his examination of the doodles, calculations, political screeds, and commercial stamps that ended up on bank bills, he connects the material culture of cash to financial, political, and intellectual history. The book demonstrates that the shift from state-regulated banks and private shinplaster producers to federally authorized paper money in the Civil War era led to the erasure of the skill, knowledge, and lived experience with banking that informed debates over economic policy. The end result, Greenberg writes, has been a diminished public understanding of how currency and the financial sector operate in our contemporary era, from the 2008 recession to the rise of Bitcoin.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812252241
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The colorful history of paper money before the Civil War Before Civil War greenbacks and a national bank network established a uniform federal currency in the United States, the proliferation of loosely regulated banks saturated the early American republic with upwards of 10,000 unique and legal bank notes. This number does not even include the plethora of counterfeit bills and the countless shinplasters of questionable legality issued by unregulated merchants, firms, and municipalities. Adding to the chaos was the idiosyncratic method for negotiating their value, an often manipulative face-to-face discussion consciously separated from any haggling over the price of the work, goods, or services for sale. In Bank Notes and Shinplasters, Joshua R. Greenberg shows how ordinary Americans accumulated and wielded the financial knowledge required to navigate interpersonal bank note transactions. Locating evidence of Americans grappling with their money in fiction, correspondence, newspapers, printed ephemera, government documents, legal cases, and even on the money itself, Greenberg argues Americans, by necessity, developed the ability to analyze the value of paper financial instruments, assess the strength of banking institutions, and even track legislative changes that might alter the rules of currency circulation. In his examination of the doodles, calculations, political screeds, and commercial stamps that ended up on bank bills, he connects the material culture of cash to financial, political, and intellectual history. The book demonstrates that the shift from state-regulated banks and private shinplaster producers to federally authorized paper money in the Civil War era led to the erasure of the skill, knowledge, and lived experience with banking that informed debates over economic policy. The end result, Greenberg writes, has been a diminished public understanding of how currency and the financial sector operate in our contemporary era, from the 2008 recession to the rise of Bitcoin.
Catalogue of Books Added to the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
A Nation of Counterfeiters
Author: Stephen Mihm
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674041011
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674041011
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
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.
Publications of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
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Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Publisher:
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Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Economic History of Wisconsin During the Civil War Decade
Author: Frederick Merk
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Publisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
John L. Mitchell's Tennessee State Gazetteer and Business Directory
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Category : Tennessee
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Publisher:
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Category : Tennessee
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Tennessee State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1860-61
Author: John L. Mitchell
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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