The power of the purse a history of American public finance, 1776-1790.
- Chapel Hill, Published for the Institute of Early American History and culture at Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press 1961.
- 1 online resource (358 pages)
Includes bibliographical references.
part I. The Revolution. Currency finance ; Square dollars ; Return to the states ; Mass expropriation ; Business, government, and Congressional investigation -- part II. Nationalist ascendancy, 1781-1783. Counterrevolution in finance ; Reign of the financier ; The aristocracy suppressed -- part III. Postwar era. Settlement of individual accounts ; Settlement of state accounts ; The economics of disunion ; Speculation in the public debt -- part IV. National public finance. Funding : the people and the creditors ; Assumption : the compromise of 1790 ; The threads tied.
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