Founding finance how debt, speculation, foreclosures, protests, and crackdowns made us a nation /

Hogeland, William.

Founding finance how debt, speculation, foreclosures, protests, and crackdowns made us a nation / William Hogeland. - first edition. - Austin : University of Texas Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (viii, 274 pages) illustrations. - Discovering America ; 5. .

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.



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Electronic Books.

HJ247 / .F686 2012