A nation of counterfeiters : capitalists, con men, and the making of the United States
Stephen Mihm
Prior to the Civil War, the United States did not have a single, national currency. Counterfeiters flourished amid this anarchy, putting vast quantities of bogus bills into circulation. Their success, Mihm reveals, is more than an entertaining tale of criminal enterprise: it is the story of the rise of a country defined by freewheeling capitalism and little government control. Mihm shows how eventually the older monetary system was dismantled, along with the counterfeit economy it sustained.
년:
2009
출판사:
Harvard University Press
언어:
english
페이지:
469
ISBN 10:
0674032446
ISBN 13:
9780674032446
파일:
PDF, 13.53 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2009