Money and Politics in America, 1755-1775 A Study in the Currency Act of 1764 and the Political Economy of Revolution

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ernst, Joseph Albert.

Contributor:

Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)

Series:

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monetary policy--History.

Monetary policy.

Currency question--United States.

Currency question.

United States--Politics and government--To 1775.

United States.

Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--18th century.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Colonies--America--Finance.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (424 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, by the University of North Carolina Press [1973]

Summary:

Although it is obvious that politics, money, and economic conditions were closely interrelated in the twenty years before the Revolution, this is the first account to bring together these strands of early American experience.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface

Glossary of Economic Terms

PART ONE: Introduction to the Problem

1. Some Forbidding Issues

2. A Summary View of British Paper Money Policies

3. The Currency Act of 1764: Virginia Monetary Practices and the Protection of British Debts

4. The Repeal Movement: Imperial Politics and Revolutionary Crisis

PART TWO: Alternatives to Repeal, 1764-1768

5. Interpreting the Law: Money and Politics in Maryland and Georgia

6. The Robinson Scandal Redivivus: Money and Politics in Virginia

7. Reworking the Law: Money and Politics in the Carolinas, Pennsylvania, and Virginia

PART THREE: Revising the Law, 1770-1775

8. The Currency Act of 1770: The Loan Office Question in New York and New Jersey

9. The Currency Act of 1773

10. Toward Independence

PART FOUR: Coda

11. The Political Economy of Revolution

Appendixes

Appendix 1. Tables

Appendix 2. Graphs

A Select List of Sources

Index.

Notes:

"Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."

Bibliography: p. 379-393.

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ISBN:

979-88-908772-3-9

1-4696-1580-0

OCLC:

1080550993