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Other People's Money: How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic (How Things Worked) by Sharon Ann (providence College) Murphy is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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How the contentious world of nineteenth-century banking shaped the United States. Pieces of paper that claimed to be good for two dollars upon redemption at a distant bank. Foreign coins that fluctuated in value from town to town. Stock certificates issued by turnpike or canal companies—worth something . . . or perhaps nothing. IOUs from farmers or tradesmen, passed around by people who could not know the person who first issued them. Money and banking in antebellum America offered a glaring exa
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- Author
- Sharon Ann (providence College) Murphy
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781421421759
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Economics, Finance, Business
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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