Introduction. From Madison to Monroe -- Part I: Circulation -- Passing the Buck -- Face-to-Face Value -- Part II: Material Culture -- Dollars and Senses -- Bank Notes and Queries -- Part III: Political Economy -- Getting Money into Politics -- Legal Tender Mercies -- Epilogue. We Don't Need No Monetary Education
Summary
In Bank Notes and Shinplasters, Joshua R. Greenberg shows how Americans accumulated and wielded monetary information in order to navigate the early republic's chaotic bank note system. He demonstrates that the shift to federally authorized paper money in the Civil War era eliminated the public's need for detailed financial knowledge
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 08, 2020)
