TY - BOOK AU - Ferguson,E.James TI - The power of the purse: a history of American public finance, 1776-1790 SN - 9781469615790 AV - HJ247 .P694 1961 PY - 1961/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - Published for the Institute of Early American History and culture at Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press KW - Electronic Books N1 - 1; 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; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=965145&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -