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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John F Chown |
| ISBN: | 0415137292 9780415137294 9780203347065 0203347064 0415102790 9780415102797 |
| OCLC Number: | 36559451 |
| Description: | ix, 306 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. I. Money as Coin -- 2. Some Concepts of Money -- 3. Money in Europe to 1250 -- 4. Money in the Commercial Revolution -- 5. The Great Debasement of Henry VIII's Reign -- 6. The Recoinage of 1696 -- Locke, Lowndes and Newton -- 7. Formalising the United Kingdom Gold Standard -- 8. Bimetallism in the Nineteenth Century -- 9. Monetary Union in the Nineteenth Century -- The Collapse of Bimetallism in Europe -- 10. Bimetallism -- The United States and India -- 11. Supporters and Opponents of Bimetallism -- 12. The Earlier History of Money -- pt. II. The Development of Credit and Banking -- 14. Credit and the Trade Fairs -- 15. The Development of Banking and Finance -- 16. The South Sea Bubble: 1720 -- 17. Deposit Banking in England -- 18. Money and Banking in the United States -- 19. After the Bank Wars: The UK/US Crises of 1836 to 1839 -- 20. Private Banking in the Early United States -- 21. The Bank Charter Act of 1844 and the Crisis of 1847 -- pt. III. Inconvertible Paper Money -- 22. Introduction -- Land Banks -- 23. John Law, Richard Cantillon, and the Mississippi Scheme -- 24. The American Revolution and the Birth of the Dollar -- 25. The French Revolution and the Assignats -- 26. The Suspension of Payments: 1797 to 1821 -- 27. The American Civil War and the Greenbacks -- 28. Some Other Cases of Inconvertible Paper Money -- 29. Postscript -- The Early Twentieth Century. |
| Responsibility: | John Chown. |
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