Goldbugs and greenbacks : the antimonopoly tradition and the politics of finance in America
This is a book about the late-nineteenth-century money debates in American politics, and about the role of history in American political development. Behind the discussions over gold versus silver and state versus national banks was a broader dialogue about sectionalism, class relations, and the future course of the American economy and democracy.
Print Book, English, 1999, ©1997
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999, ©1997
xii, 303 p. ; 23 cm
9780521653923, 0521653924
1001604686
1. The money debate and American political development; 2. Party politics and the financial debate, 1865–1896; 3. Greenbacks versus gold: the contest over finance in the 1870s; 4. The 'people's money': Greenbackism in North Carolina, Illinois and Massachusetts; 5. The battle of the standards: the financial debate of the 1890s; 6. Populism and the politics of finance in North Carolina, Illinois and Massachusetts in the 1890s; 7. Money, history, and American political development; Appendix A. Financial terms of the 1870s and 1890s; Appendix B. Major banking and currency legislation, 1860–1900; Appendix C. An antimonopolist reading of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.