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A nation of counterfeiters : capitalists, con men, and the making of the United States / Stephen Mihm.
Lippincott Library HG336.U5 M54 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mihm, Stephen, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bank notes--Forgeries--United States.
- Bank notes.
- Banks and banking--United States.
- Banks and banking.
- Bank notes--Forgeries.
- United States.
- Counterfeits and counterfeiting--United States.
- Counterfeits and counterfeiting.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 457 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- Prologue : Confidence and the currency
- Bordering on alchemy
- Cogniac street capitalism
- The bank wars
- The western bankers
- Passing and detecting
- Ghosts in the machine
- Banking on the nation
- Epilogue : Condfidence in the country.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [379]-427) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674026575
- 0674026578
- OCLC:
- 86109817
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