Professor Bodenhorn reveals how America was served by an efficient system of financial intermediaries by the mid-nineteenth century.

Offers the study of Antebellum southern slavery and the credit system. This work explains how the Bank of the United States supported the government's and the n

Examines the different state banking systems in the U.S. from 1790 through 1860.

How the contentious world of nineteenth-century banking shaped the United States. Pieces of paper that claimed to be good for two dollars upon redemption at a d