Early American and Atlantic Money

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The history of finance has become a crucial site for studying governance and statecraft, for recovering the organizing logic of capitalism, and for recognizing the structures of power in any given society. Topics include the recurring debates over metallic and paper currencies, the emergence of a national banking systems, and the technologies of coinage, assaying, and counterfeiting. Particular focus on the relationship among finance, colonization, and slavery, as well as the many speculative monetary systems that circled around the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century through the nineteenth century.