Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-393) and index.
Contents
PART 1: Introduction to the Problem -- Some Forbidding Issues -- A Summary View of British Paper Money Policies -- The Currency Act of 1764: Virginia Monetary Practices and the Protection of British Debts -- The Repeal Movement: Imperial Politics and Revolutionary Crisis -- PART 2: Alternatives to Repeal, 1764-1768 -- Interpreting the Law: Money and Politics in Maryland and Georgia -- The Robinson Scandal Redivivus: Money and Politics in Virginia -- Reworking the Law: Money and Politics in the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, and Virginia -- PART 3: Revising the Law, 1770-1775 -- The Currency Act of 1770: The Loan Office Question in New York and New Jersey -- The Currency Act of 1773 -- Toward Independence -- PART 4: Coda -- The Political Economy of Revolution.