Money and the Making of the American Revolution.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edwards, Andrew David.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2025.

Summary:

A new interpretation of the American Revolution as a transformative monetary contest American money and American democracy have always been in tension, pitting political equality against economic inequality.In Money and the Making of the American Revolution , Andrew David Edwards shows how this struggle emerged in America's founding era.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Introduction: The Burning Question

Part I. The Atlantic Divergence

Chapter 1. An Invention: Massachusetts, 1620-1702

Chapter 2. Slavery and the Financial Revolutions: London and Virginia, 1690-1762

Chapter 3. A "Strange and Deceitful System": London and Virginia, 1762-1764

Part II. The Conflict Begins

Chapter 4. The Stamp Act Crisis: London and America, 1765-1766

Chapter 5. The Right to Be Wrong about Money: London and America, 1765-1769

Chapter 6. Silver, Famine, and Tea: Bengal, Massachusetts, and London, 1769-1774

Part III. The Double Revolution

Chapter 7. The Double Revolution: America, 1775-1776

Chapter 8. The Money War: London and America, 1776-1780

Chapter 9. Transformations: Paris and America, 1780-1787

Conclusion: The Monied Republic: Capitalism and the American Revolution

Acknowledgments

Notes

Illustration Credits

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-691-28012-6

OCLC:

1535401107