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Author Hogeland, William.

Title Founding finance [electronic resource] : how debt, speculation, foreclosures, protests, and crackdowns made us a nation / William Hogeland.

Imprint Austin : University of Texas Press, 2012.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description viii, 274 p. : ill.
Series Discovering America ; 5
Discovering America series ; 5.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-261) and index.
Contents The founders, finance, and us -- Riot, regulate, occupy (1765/1771) -- Two revolutions? (1771/1776) -- Conceived in war debt (1776/1783) -- History on the verge of a nervous breakdown (1913/2012) -- An existential interpretation of the constitution of the United States (1783/1789) -- It's Hamilton's America-- : we just live in it (1789/1791) -- Crackdown and lockup : Cincinnatus, the whiskey rebels, and the end of Thomas Paine (1791/ ) -- Gather your armies -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliographic essays -- References -- Index.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject United States. Constitutional Convention (1787)
Finance, Public -- United States -- History -- 1789-1801.
Debts, Public -- United States -- History -- 1789-1801.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1789-1797.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780292743618 (alk. paper)
9780292744509 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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