The founders and finance : how Hamilton, Gallatin, and other immigrants forged a new economy / Thoma...
The founders and finance : how Hamilton, Gallatin, and other immigrants forged a new economy / Thoma...
The founders and finance : how Hamilton, Gallatin, and other immigrants forged a new economy / Thomas K. McCraw.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.
Date
2012.
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N330.97304/1
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English
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viii, 485 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Alexander Hamilton, 1757-1804 --
Albert Gallatin, 1761-1849 --
The legacies.
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2012.
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In 1776 the United States government started out on a shoestring and quickly went bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war's end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power to tax, it had no means to repay them. The Founders and Finance is the first book...
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The founders and finance : how Hamilton, Gallatin, and other immigrants forged a new economy / Thomas K. McCraw.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N330.97304/1
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74Vv40v4GMvA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv40v4GMvA
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ISBN
0674066928 (alk. paper)
9780674066922 (alk. paper)
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330.973/04
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991015603629702626
