Money and the making of the American Revolution /
"In the eighteenth century, the American colonies -- rich in everything except precious metals -- traded in credit or recorded private debts in ledgers. This led to an empowering insight : money is what happens in those ledgers, a way to measure value, not the coins they lacked. But as the colo...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
2025
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Burning Question
- The Atlantic Divergence: An invention: Massachusetts, 1620-1702
- Slavery and the Financial Revolutions: London and Virginia, 1690-1762
- A "strange and deceitful system": London and Virginia, 1762-1764
- The Conflict Begins: The Stamp Act Crisis: London and America, 1765-1766
- The right to be wrong about money: London and America, 1765-1769
- Silver, famine, and tea: Bengal, Massachusetts, and London, 1769-1774
- The Double Revolution: America, 1775-1776
- The Money War: London and America, 1776-1780
- Transformations: Paris and America, 1780-1787
- Conclusion: The Monied Republic: Capitalism and the American Revolution
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Illustration Credits
- Index.