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The Continental Dollar: How the American Revolution Was Financed with Paper Money
The Continental Dollar explains how Congress used paper currency to finance the War of Independence without an established national tax system. Farley Grubb reconstructs the design, circulation, depreciation, and eventual redemption of Continental money. Challenging the familiar story of simple collapse, the book shows how wartime finance worked, who bore its costs, and how monetary choices shaped the emerging United States.
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication date
- 2023-07-05
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 296
- ISBN
- 9780226826035
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