A history of banking in antebellum America
Subtitle: financial markets and economic cevelopment in an era of nation-building
By: Howard Bodenhorn
Series: Studies in macroeconomic history
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, England; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Banks and banking -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-255) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: historical setting and three views of banking; title: Financial development and economic growth in Antebellum America; title: Financing entrepreneurship: banks, merchants and manufacturers; title: The integration of short-term capital markets in Antebellum America; title: Banks, brokers, and capital mobility; title: Conclusion: how banks mattered; title: Epilogue: a Postbellum reprise