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Perkins on U.S. financial history and related topics / Edwin J. Perkins.

Title
Perkins on U.S. financial history and related topics / Edwin J. Perkins.
Author
Perkins, Edwin J.
Publication
Lanham : University Press of America, c2009.

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Description
173 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Geschichte
  • Finance > United States > History
  • United States > Economic conditions
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The entrepreneurial spirit in colonial America : the foundations of modern business history -- "Introduction" to American public finance and financial service, 1700-1815 -- Conflicting views on fiat currency : Britain and its North American colonies in the eighteenth century -- Madison's debt discrimination proposal revisited : the application of present value financial analysis -- Jeffersonian principles and the shaping of American financial services, 1790-1815 -- Lost opportunities for compromise in the bank war : a reassessment of Jackson's veto message -- Managing a dollar-sterling exchange account : Brown, Shipley & Co. in the 1850s -- Tourists and bankers : travelers' checks and the rise of American tourism, 1840-1900 -- The emergence of a futures market for foreign exchange in the United States -- Anglo-American merchant banking houses in the nineteenth century -- Market research at Merrill Lynch & Co. : new directions for stockbrokers -- Presidential address : business history conference : banks and brokers.
ISBN
  • 9780761844204 (paperback : alk. paper)
  • 0761844201 (paperback : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008937439
OCLC
  • 264046942
  • SCSB-10523035
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library