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This set examines the development of banking in the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century. When Congress first tried to introduce a unified currency to finance a national army it failed because of the large number of counterfeit notes in circulation. Similarly two attempts to set up a central bank resulted in bankruptcy. Even after the Mint was set up, the Federal government's... Read more
A General History of the Most Prominent Banks in Europe ... also A Hamilton's Report to Congress on Currency [1831] Thomas H Goddard 256pp, Legislative and Documentary History of the Bank of the United States [1832] Clarke & Hall 410pp, The History of Banks [1837] Richard Hildreth 146pp, The Theory of Money and Banks Investigated [1839] George Tucker 420pp, Dunscombe's Free Banking [1841] Charles Dunscombe 368pp, The Journal of Banking...to which is annexed A Short History of Paper Money and Banking [1842] William M Gouge 412pp, The History of Banking in America [1837] William Gilbert 220pp
Biography
John Chown
