Banks and Politics in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War

Cover
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Preface
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CONTENTS
......Page 11
1. The Setting, 1694-1781......Page 15
2. The First American Bank, Philadelphia, 1781-1787
......Page 52
3. The Start in New York, Boston, and Baltimore, 1784-1790
......Page 77
4. Money, Banking, and the Federal Constitution, 1787-1791
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5. The Bank of the United States, 1791-1811
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6. Politics and the Growth of Banking, 1791-1816
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7. Failures and Restraints, 1791-1820
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8. The Federal Bank in Operation and Extinction, 1791-1811
......Page 209
9. War, Suspension, and Resumption, 1812-1816
......Page 239
10. The New Federal Bank, 1816-1822
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11. Nicholas Biddle, 1822-1828
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12. The Jacksonians, 1829-1841
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13. The Assault on the Federal Bank, 1829-1832
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14. The Federal Bank Destroyed, 1832-1836
......Page 417
15. Panic, Suspension, Resumption, 1837-1838
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16. The Foundering of the United States Bank of Pennsylvania, 1839-1841
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17. The Suffolk Bank; the Safety Fund; Briscoe v. Bank of Kentucky; 1819-1865
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18. Free Banking in New York and Michigan, 1835-1865
......Page 584
19. The West: Monopoly, Prohibition, Laisser Faire, and Regulation, 1830-1865
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20. Banking in Canada before Confederation, 1792-1867
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21. Practice and Panic, 1853-1857
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22. Federal Monetary Control Restored, 1863-1865
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Retrospect
......Page 752
Acknowledgments
......Page 755
Abbreviations
......Page 758
Works Cited
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Index
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