The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865-1879
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781597404310 (1597404314)
Publish date: November 1st 2008
Publisher: ACLS History E-Book Project
Pages no: 492
Edition language: English
“Differences over currency and the related subject of banking have expressed basic American social and political antagonisms.” (He points to Joseph Dorfman’s 5 volumes of The Economic Mind, 3) Unger credits Beard with developing these themes, but criticizes the dualism of “Capitalist versus farmer, ...