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Title

The power of the purse; a history of American public finance, 1776-1790.

Author

Ferguson, E. James (Elmer James), 1917-

Publication

Chapel Hill, Published for the Institute of Early American History and culture at Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press [1961]

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358 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

Finance, Public > United States > History > To 1789
To 1789
United States > Finance. > Revolution, 1775-1783

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliography.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

pt. I. The Revolution. Currency finance ; Square dollars ; Return to the states ; Mass expropriation ; Business, government, and Congressional investigation -- pt. II. Nationalist ascendancy, 1781-1783. Counterrevolution in finance ; Reign of the financier ; The aristocracy suppressed -- pt. III. Postwar era. Settlement of individual accounts ; Settlement of state accounts ; The economics of disunion ; Speculation in the public debt -- pt. IV. National public finance. Funding : the people and the creditors ; Assumption : the compromise of 1790 ; The threads tied.

LCCN

^^^61000325^/L/r842

OCLC

252483

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library