Hammond Sovereignty and an Empty Purse

Banks and Politics in the Civil War
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5535-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 412 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

A sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War, this book by Bray Hammond focuses on how Washington struggled financially to settle the Civil War and how its measures spurred the growth of federal government.

Originally published in 1970.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Hammond, Bray

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
PREFACE, pg. v
CONTENTS, pg. vii
1. A STUNTED GOVERNMENT, pg. 1
2. SUMTER, BULL RUN, AND THE SPECIAL SESSION, APRIL TO AUGUST 1861, pg. 35
3. SECRETARY CHASE AND THE BANKERS, pg. 71
4. AUGUST TO DECEMBER 1861, pg. 107
5. THE DECEMBER COLLAPSE, pg. 129
6. MAKING PAPER A LEGAL TENDER, pg. 165
7. ADOPTION OF THE LEGAL TENDER ACT, pg. 209
8. NORTH AND SOUTH, pg. 237
9. THE REVENUE BILL, HR 312, pg. 261
10. WAYS AND MEANS VERSUS THE ADMINISTRATION, pg. 283
11. THE ADMINISTRATION BILL ENACTED, pg. 319
12. CONCLUSION, pg. 353
NOTES, pg. 365
WORKS CITED, pg. 379
INDEX, pg. 387

Über Autor(innen)

Bray Hammond (1886-1968) was Assistant Secretary of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1944 to 1950.