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Enterprise and Society 2008 9(4):852-854; doi:10.1093/es/khn092
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Stephen Mihm. A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. ix + 457 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-02657-5, $29.95 (cloth)

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This engaging study explores the world of paper currency counterfeiting in the United States from the revolutionary period to the Civil War. It is part economic, part cultural history, and Stephen Mihm recounts the history of bogus money through the stories of various counterfeiters and their schemes. Drawing from cultural histories of early capitalism and studies of the institutional developments that marked the rise of the market economy, he also seeks to interpret counterfeiting's significance in the broadest possible terms. To summarize his . . . [Full Text of this Article]

C. Wyatt Evans

Drew University


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