Other People's Money: How Banking Worked In The Early American Republic

Authors

Joshua Rothman

ISBN

9781421421759

Price

$19.95

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Abstract

How Banks Worked (and Sometimes Did Not Work) in the Early Republic Trying to understand the workings of American banking and finance before the Civil War can be baffling. There was no central bank and no national currency, but rather a mostly decentralized system of banks of varying sorts that cir....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.19.3.19

Recommended Citation

Rothman, Joshua (2017) "Other People's Money: How Banking Worked In The Early American Republic," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 19 : Iss. 3 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.19.3.19
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol19/iss3/14