A nation of counterfeiters : capitalists, con men, and the making of the United States

A nation of counterfeiters : capitalists, con men, and the making of the United States / Stephen Mihm.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mihm, Stephen, 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Bank notes > Forgeries > United States.
Banks and banking > United States.
Counterfeits and counterfeiting > United States.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : Confidence and the currency
  • Bordering on alchemy
  • Cogniac street capitalism
  • The bank wars
  • The western bankers
  • Passing and detecting
  • Ghosts in the machine
  • Banking on the nation
  • Epilogue : Condfidence in the country.

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