"A Just and Honest Valuation": paper money and the body politic in colonial America, 1640-1765
My dissertation argues that paper money created a new regime of value in early America, inscribed on the money itself and expressed in the political ordering of society. The radical ideas about money and value that inspired the colonial currencies originated in Commonwealth England. Those ideas spre...
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2018
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27369 |