State Banking in Early America: A New Economic History

by Howard Bodenhorn

Book Overview

Howard Bodenhorn's State Banking in Early America studies the financial experimentation that took place in the United States between 1790 and 1860. Dr. Bodenhorn's book explores regional differences in banking structures, which bear indirectly in the conection between financial and economic development. If a single theme emerges, it is that the United States benefitted from its free banking philosophy in which state governments, rather than a centralized...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195147766
• ISBN13: 9780195147766
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.5"