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Founding finance : how debt, speculation, foreclosures, protests, and crackdowns made us a nation / William Hogeland.

By: Series: Discovering AmericaPublication details: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780292743618 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 336.7309/033 23
LOC classification:
  • HJ247 .H64 2012
Contents:
The founders, finance, and us -- Riot, regulate, occupy (1765/1771) -- Two revolutions? (1771/1776) -- Conceived in war debt (1776/1783) -- History on the verge of a nervous breakdown (1913/2012) -- An existential interpretation of the constitution of the United States (1783/1789) -- It's Hamilton's America-- : we just live in it (1789/1791) -- Crackdown and lockup : Cincinnatus, the whiskey rebels, and the end of Thomas Paine (1791/ ) -- Gather your armies -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliographic essays -- References -- Index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-261) and index.

The founders, finance, and us -- Riot, regulate, occupy (1765/1771) -- Two revolutions? (1771/1776) -- Conceived in war debt (1776/1783) -- History on the verge of a nervous breakdown (1913/2012) -- An existential interpretation of the constitution of the United States (1783/1789) -- It's Hamilton's America-- : we just live in it (1789/1791) -- Crackdown and lockup : Cincinnatus, the whiskey rebels, and the end of Thomas Paine (1791/ ) -- Gather your armies -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliographic essays -- References -- Index.

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