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Author:

Hogeland, William.

Title:

Founding finance : how debt, speculation, foreclosures, protests, and crackdowns made us a nation / William Hogeland.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

University of Texas Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

viii, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Finance, Public--United States--History--1789-1801.
Debts, Public--United States--History--1789-1801.
United States--Politics and government--1789-1797.
United States.--Constitutional Convention--(1787)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-261) and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Discovering America ; [5]

ISBN:

0292743610 (alk. paper)
9780292743618 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2012023318

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

IBAX173 -- North Iowa Area Community College Library (Mason City)

GAAX314 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Peosta (Peosta)