Stumbling Towards the Constitution

The Economic Consequences of Freedom in the Atlantic World

J. Chu (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

277 Seiten

2012 | 1st ed. 2012
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-34306-5 (ISBN)

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Jonathan Chu explores individual economic and legal behaviors, connecting them to adjustments in trade relations with Europe and Asia, the rise in debt litigation in Western Massachusetts, deflation and monetary illiquidity, and the Bank of North America.

JONATHAN M. CHU Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA.

PART I: THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF INDEPENDENCE Independence, the United States and the Atlantic Community Reorienting Trade: The Origins of Sino-American Trade American Merchants in the Post-Revolutionary World Debt and Taxes: State Action, the Economy, and Individual Behavior Illiquidity, Depression, and Debt Litigation in Western Massachusetts PART II: FROM ILLIQUIDITY TO CONSTITUTIONALISM Paper Money: Defining Values, Negotiating Equity A Necessary Expedient: Monetary Stability and the Bank of North America The Bank of North America, A Dreadful Engine of Oppression The Unfinished Revolution: A Uniform System of Commercial Intercourse and Regulations

Erscheinungsdatum	01.06.2020
Reihe/Serie	The New Urban Atlantic
Zusatzinfo	XV, 277 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Europe • Liberty • Revolution
ISBN-10	1-349-34306-4 / 1349343064
ISBN-13	978-1-349-34306-5 / 9781349343065
Zustand	Neuware