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Hogeland, William.

Founding finance : how debt, speculation, foreclosures, protests, and crackdowns made us a nation / William Hogeland. - 1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2012. - viii, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Discovering America .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-261) and index.

The founders, finance, and us -- Riot, regulate, occupy (1765/1771) -- Two revolutions? (1771/1776) -- Conceived in war debt (1776/1783) -- History on the verge of a nervous breakdown (1913/2012) -- An existential interpretation of the constitution of the United States (1783/1789) -- It's Hamilton's America-- : we just live in it (1789/1791) -- Crackdown and lockup : Cincinnatus, the whiskey rebels, and the end of Thomas Paine (1791/ ) -- Gather your armies -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliographic essays -- References -- Index.

ISBN: 9780292743618 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 2012023318

Subjects--Corporate Names:
United States. Constitutional Convention (1787)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Finance, Public--History--United States--1789-1801.
Debts, Public--History--United States--1789-1801.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Politics and government--1789-1797.

LC Class. No.: HJ247 / .H64 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 336.7309/033