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Banks and politics in America: from the Revolution to the Civil War

Hammond, Bray.

Year: 1957.

Publisher: Princeton University Press.

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Frontmatter

Preface

1. The Setting, 1694-1781

2. The First American Bank, Philadelphia, 1781-1787

3. The Start in New York, Boston, and Baltimore, 1784-1790

4. Money, Banking, and the Federal Constitution, 1787-1791

5. The Bank of the United States, 1791-1811

6. Politics and the Growth of Banking, 1791-1816

7. Failures and Restraints, 1791-1820

8. The Federal Bank in Operation and Extinction, 1791-1811

9. War, Suspension, and Resumption, 1812-1816

10. The New Federal Bank, 1816-1822

11. Nicholas Biddle, 1822-1828

12. The Jacksonians, 1829-1841

13. The Assault on the Federal Bank, 1829-1832

14. The Federal Bank Destroyed, 1832-1836

15. Panic, Suspension, Resumption, 1837-38

16. The Foundering of the United States Bank of Pennsylvania, 1839-1841

17. The Suffolk Bank; the Safety Fund; Briscoe v. Bank of Kentucky; 1819-1865

18. Free Banking in New York and Michigan, 1835-1865

19. The West: Monopoly, Prohibition, Laisser Faire, and Regulation, 1830-1865

20. Banking in Canada before Confederation, 1792-1867

21. Practice and Panic, 1853-1857

22. Federal Monetary Control Restored, 1863-1865

Retrospect

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Works Cited

Index

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Banks and politics in America : from the Revolution to the Civil War by Bray Hammond.

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Hammond, Bray

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Banks and politics in America : from the Revolution to the Civil War by Bray Hammond.
Hammond, Bray
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1957.

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