Book Description
Counterfeiting flourished in colonial America and Scott brings to life the many colorful figures who indulged in this nefarious practice.
Author : Kenneth Scott
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 1957
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812217315
Counterfeiting flourished in colonial America and Scott brings to life the many colorful figures who indulged in this nefarious practice.
Author : Kenneth Scott
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 23,49 MB
Release : 1953
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Kenneth Scott
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 26,17 MB
Release : 2013-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781258761615
Author : Kenneth Scott
Publisher :
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 20,20 MB
Release : 1957
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Kenneth Scott
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 22,64 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Kenneth Scott
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,82 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Social Science
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Author : Valerie Bohigian
Publisher :
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 32,68 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Counterfeits and counterfeiting
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Author : Ben Tarnoff
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 32,53 MB
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1101574836
"This tale of counterfeiting is a treat for everyone...a delightful history lesson...Admirable and altogether charming." -The Washington Post As Ben Tarnoff reminds us in this entertaining narrative history, get-rich-quick schemes are as old as America itself. Indeed, the speculative ethos that pervades Wall Street today, Tarnoff suggests, has its origins in the counterfeiters who first took advantage of America's turbulent economy. In A Counterfeiter's Paradise, Tarnoff chronicles the lives of three colorful counterfeiters who flourished in early America, from the colonial period to the Civil War. Driven by desire for fortune and fame, each counterfeiter cunningly manipulated the political and economic realities of his day. Through the tales of these three memorable hustlers, Tarnoff tells the larger tale of America's financial coming-of-age, from a patchwork of colonies to a powerful nation with a single currency.
Author : Harrold Edgar Gillingham
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Stephen Mihm
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 12,44 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674041011
Prior to the Civil War, the United States did not have a single, national currency. Counterfeiters flourished amid this anarchy, putting vast quantities of bogus bills into circulation. Their success, Mihm reveals, is more than an entertaining tale of criminal enterprise: it is the story of the rise of a country defined by freewheeling capitalism and little government control. Mihm shows how eventually the older monetary system was dismantled, along with the counterfeit economy it sustained.