The power of the purse : a history of American public finance, 1776-1790 / by E. James Ferguson.
Imprint
Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, [1961]
pt. I. The Revolution. Currency finance ; Square dollars ; Return to the states ; Mass expropriation ; Business, government, and Congressional investigation -- pt. II. Nationalist ascendancy, 1781-1783. Counterrevolution in finance ; Reign of the financier ; The aristocracy suppressed -- pt. III. Postwar era. Settlement of individual accounts ; Settlement of state accounts ; The economics of disunion ; Speculation in the public debt -- pt. IV. National public finance. Funding : the people and the creditors ; Assumption : the compromise of 1790 ; The threads tied.
