Remarks on the Early Paper Currency of Massachusetts

Remarks on the Early Paper Currency of Massachusetts
Title Remarks on the Early Paper Currency of Massachusetts PDF eBook
Author Nathaniel Paine
Publisher
Pages 94
Release 1866
Genre Money
ISBN

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A History of American Currency

A History of American Currency
Title A History of American Currency PDF eBook
Author Sumner Sumner
Publisher Ludwig von Mises Institute
Pages 401
Release 2007
Genre
ISBN 1610160746

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Bank Notes and Shinplasters

Bank Notes and Shinplasters
Title Bank Notes and Shinplasters PDF eBook
Author Joshua R. Greenberg
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 256
Release 2020-07-10
Genre History
ISBN 0812252241

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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.

The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America

The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America
Title The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 810
Release 1869
Genre United States
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Catalogue of the American Library of the Late Mr. George Brinley

Catalogue of the American Library of the Late Mr. George Brinley
Title Catalogue of the American Library of the Late Mr. George Brinley PDF eBook
Author George Brinley
Publisher
Pages 366
Release 1897
Genre America
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An Account of the American Antiquarian Society

An Account of the American Antiquarian Society
Title An Account of the American Antiquarian Society PDF eBook
Author Nathaniel Paine
Publisher
Pages 52
Release 1876
Genre America
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Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society

Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society
Title Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society PDF eBook
Author American Antiquarian Society
Publisher
Pages 104
Release 1888
Genre United States
ISBN

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